Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Takeshita's popularity at home has been weakened by the adoption of a 3% consumption tax that he championed and a stock scandal that forced the resignation of three Cabinet members, he has been successful in expanding Japan's role as a global philanthropist. Among the signs: a planned 7.8% increase in Japan's foreign-aid budget. The growth will lift Japanese overseas assistance to $9.6 billion for fiscal 1989, and should propel Japan past the U.S. as the world's top donor...
...walked through the Square this week, you've probably noticed the forlorn activist by the T-station who has launched a solitary hunger strike to free Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche, a former communist turned right-wing fanatic, is now serving a 15 year sentence for conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion. The convictions stem from a credit card scam in which LaRouche's operatives stole more than $2 million...
...governor's tax proposal does not go through the legislature, human services in the Commonwealth will be in shambles. We'll be back to King administration funding," Johnston said, referring to Dukakis' more conservative predecessor. "I can't believe the legislature will allow that to happen...
...Dukakis tax plan virtually eliminates the capital gains tax reduction and calls for an increase in gasoline, cigarette and alcohol taxes. Critics have lambasted the proposal as unfair to the taxpayer and detrimental to economic growth...
...There's never been a demonstration in favor of tax increases," said Johnston, a former state legislator. "But we'll have to be calm and tell the people the reality of the budget crunch--that this is a progressive tax increase...