Word: taxing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...moving with short, measured steps to deal with its foreign problems, its tempo in domestic matters seems slower and less specified. During the week, Nixon let it be known that he would recommend overhaul-though not outright abolition-of the Electoral College system. He said that he favored tax reforms designed to meet mounting congressional clamor for closing some of the loopholes that allow many of the very rich to live entirely taxfree. He has been in close touch with Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the most powerful man in Congress...
...Show was really a preview of California's gubernatorial elections, 20 months off. Reagan, who had previously hinted that he would be a candidate for a second term, sweetened his prospects on TV by informing Californians that his 1969-70 budget would yield them a onetime, across-the-board tax cut of 10%. It would come, conveniently, on next year's tax bill, for which Californians will be filing returns at just about the time Reagan's race would begin in earnest. Not to be outdone, Assembly Minority Leader Jesse Unruh, who seems likely to oppose the Governor, demanded that...
Reagan has been under intense pressure to provide some kind of tax relief since he pushed through a $1 billion 1967 tax increase?up 25% over the previous year?whose provisions hit middle-income brackets hardest. He claimed that the additional funds were necessary to pay for the prodigal spending of his predecessor, Pat Brown, but no amount of apologizing could gainsay the fact that he had run on a pledge to keep the cost of government down. Instead, it has gone steadily up; next year's spending will increase 3.9% to $6.2 billion (though the budget will be smaller...
Looking tanned and relaxed in the taped appearance, Reagan explained that all increases next year are "fully necessary" to cover increases in the population and inflation. Then, announcing the $100 million income tax reduction, he beamed proudly: "I believe we have started what we hope will be a new trend in government finances...
...skyrocketed the budget, drastically increased the teaching load, and made classroom chores doubly undesirable. The faculty responded by giving up and withdrawing to their offices or laboratories to write books and "do original work." The prevailing belief among scientists, agency heads, business vice-presidents, philanthropists, college publicity directors and tax-payers is that only research gives justification to the enterprise. The old tradition--love of knowledge for its own sake--is not the active principle these days. As a producer of research, the university wants only productive scholars, which means specialists who specialize. The teacher has become the director...