Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...base of government spending is becoming so large that new tax and 'revenue enhancement' packages will become an annual event to support spiraling budget growth. This is intolerable," Voke said...
Conservatives, including business groups and anti-tax forces, were pleased. Senate Minority Leader David Locke was so taken with Voke's approach that he proposed making the Chelsea Democrat an honorary Republican...
Alternatively, Voke said, members will have to realize that they are in effect voting for a tax increase. The Chelsea Democrat said he would not rule out a tax increase...
Dukakis, who stood by his tax package and predicted compromise, was outwardly conciliatory, thanking Voke for starting the debate early...
...real drug crisis may be that Americans don't want to clean up the inner city. Drug abusers are viewed by many as morally repugnant, and few voters want to spend precious tax dollars on the urban poor. According to Dr. David Musto of Yale, "Middle class Americans may become so absolutely disgusted that all they will want to do is arrest everyone or wall up the inner city...