Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upper-middle-class followers and the left-of-center American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), headed by Old Liberal Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, His budgets rose from $400 million to more than $1 billion annually, and the country's cumulative deficit grew to $555 million. Tax dodging by the privileged was flagrant, but Belaúnde's programs were in any case beyond Peru's fiscal capacity. So he went abroad to borrow money to keep his plans afloat, until the foreign debt mounted to $900 million...
Aside from Congressional resentment, official Republican policy could also pose a fundamental threat to needy students. Rep. Gerald Ford of Michigan, who would be Speaker of a Republican House, sees the tax credit plan which passed the Senate last year as the final solution to student aid problems. The plan also received prominent mention in the GOP platform...
Ford's proposal would allow anyone who pays tuition for a college student to claim a credit on his income tax. But the maximum allowance of $325 would not help any student's family very much, and poorer families with a small tax payment would receive almost no benefit. "Tax credit" is a difficult phrase to resist, though, and only sustained opposition from the Johnson Administration killed it in the House last year...
...Republicans have their way, the tax credit would supersede the current network of federal grants and loans to students. The credit plan would have a special appeal if campus disruptions continue because the benefit would go directly to parents, who are also the taxpayers and voters, rather than to students or college financial aid offices...
...speech Wallace hammered way at now familiar themes as he attacked federal open housing legislation, school bussing, anti-war students, college professors, the tax-exempt status of the national foundations, and Harvard...