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Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives met with student group members on Thursday to discuss the impact of the College’s unpopular 5 percent tax on groups’ gift accounts instated this year...
...employee pensions - kept her from looking like a serious contender. But in late August she took an important step in announcing a four-year revenue plan that depends on the controversial notion of opening Chicago's first casino to help provide billions of dollars for public schools and property tax relief. Topinka, like Blagojevich, has been averse to raising sales or income taxes to generate revenue, though the challenger insists she wouldn't rule out those measures as a last resort...
...collapse of the Soviet Union. Russians have watched their legislature and judiciary become increasingly subordinate to the Kremlin, which also claimed the power to run the regions by directly appointing governors. The corporate sector, too, has been brought to heel, intimidated by the Kremlin's power to use tax laws and other means to keep them in line...
...Times reported. But then, Lott had also been a loyal spear carrier for George W. Bush, shepherding the President's legislative priorities through the Senate in 2001 and 2002. Lott's problem was ancient history. He had been disloyal to Bush's father, siding with Newt Gingrich against the tax increases that President George H.W. Bush proposed in 1990 and dissing Bush the Elder by participating in a noisy, Gingrichite call for tax cuts during the 1992 campaign. "You think W. doesn't remember Trent knifing the old man during the Clinton campaign?" a Gingrichite reminded me as Lott went...
Indeed the most relevant part of the story is not that the socialists lied “morning noon and night,” but that their rivals, the center right Fidesz party, did as well. The socialists did not win the election because they were promising tax cuts and spending increases while the conservatives were promising harsh austerity measures. Indeed Fidesz’s proposals were even more unsound and disengaged from reality; they campaigned on explicit promises of sizable tax cuts and spending increases...