Word: surtax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Those are two different things. The thing I think will work is to raise the top tax rate on people with gross incomes above $200,000 to 35% or 36% and put < a surtax on people with incomes of a million dollars or more a year. But it would not be fair for you to say I'm running on a read-my-lips pledge just because I'm in principle opposed to raising taxes on the middle class. I think Bush made a terrible mistake saying "Read my lips" without knowing what the facts were...
...help finance middle-class relief, the rich would get some form of modest increase. One way would be to boost the top marginal tax rate a few points; another would be to add a surtax on millionaires' income...
...Thanks mostly to a brief rise in the price of crude to a high of $40, those earnings rose 77% above 1989's level. "We are protecting their oil with American boys," complains Senator Howard Metzenbaum, the Ohio Democrat who introduced a bill earlier this month calling for a surtax on the profits of the largest companies. "As quick as Saddam raised his sword, the oil companies raised their prices...
...sweeping attack on environmental problems ever put before voters, but they also turned back a flurry of special interest-backed proposals that would have negated Big Green's impact had it passed. In the blur of clashing TV commercials, citizens turned negative, killing everything from a nickel-a-drink surtax on alcoholic beverages to a sales tax to fund antidrug measures...
...negotiations, though he and chief of staff John Sununu had both been cast in messenger roles because their aggressive arm bending in support of the budget summit's package had alienated many Republicans and most of the Democrats. Gephardt told Darman that the Democrats would give up the surtax in exchange for a tax-rate increase for the rich and a phaseout of their personal exemptions, along with a 5 cents gas tax hike and a new capital gains top rate of 28%. Speaker Thomas Foley followed up later with a call to the President, who accepted the plan...