Word: taxed
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...months, members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party have plaintively referred to the problems besetting their organization as the "triple woes." The phrase refers to popular dissatisfaction over the Recruit stock-shares- for-influence scandal, a three-month-old 3% consumption tax, and a liberalization of agricultural imports that angers farmers, who traditionally support the L.D.P...
...always gambled and always will -- so governments might as well cut themselves in on the action. Lotteries painlessly raise billions for worthy causes (education in most states, senior citizens' programs in Pennsylvania). Lottery operators love to quote an 1826 remark by Thomas Jefferson that lotteries are a kind of tax "laid on the willing only." Chon Gutierrez, director of the California lottery, goes so far as to assert, "The lottery is not gambling. It's entertainment." And cheap entertainment at that, says Edward Stanek, commissioner of the Iowa lottery, because ticket buyers "can spend $1 and then spend the rest...
Lotteries offer an easy source of revenue for politicians who lack the courage to raise taxes. The problem is that the poor play quite as much as those who are better off and can more easily afford it. Mark Michalko, former director of the California lottery, disputes the idea that lotteries are in effect a regressive tax on the poor. "The vast majority of players are middle-income and higher," he says. Yet he concedes that "there is some small percentage of people in the lower-income brackets who play ((to excess)), and by definition it is going...
President Bush, who favors an approach based largely on tax credits, has threatened to veto ABC, but it is difficult to see how he can sustain such a veto. Although the vote broke down largely on party lines, nine Republicans joined 54 Democrats in passing the plan. Moreover, the House is working on a / bill similar to ABC that would also expand the Head Start program and offer school-based care to latchkey children. Bowing perhaps to political reality, the Administration indicated last week that it would be willing to discuss how ABC can be improved...
...powerful umpire, to disqualify himself for having prejudged the case. At sore issue is an April letter, drafted by Dowd but signed by Giamatti, that commended the "candid, forthright and truthful" cooperation of alleged bookmaker Ron Peters, Rose's principal accuser, who was seeking the lightest sentence to a tax-evasion and drug-trafficking conviction. The judge who received the commissioner's letter was so appalled that he turned the sentencing over to another jurist (Peters got two years) and leveled the loud opinion that by vouching for a witness in a case he had yet to hear, Giamatti...