Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need no longer use the subway. No business organizations will ever give money to the State of New York to improve the subway system and it is not politically feasible for State government officials, even if they wanted to, to allocate the sums of money needed out of their tax revenues. That option does not exist for the governors. One of the first moves of the post-revolutionary government in the Soviet Union was to construct an elaborate subway system so that Moscow today has the most palatial and opulent subway stations in the world--they look like opera houses...
...Cambridge City Council voted Monday night to grant a 23 per cent pay raise to City firemen and police over the next two years, making them the highest paid in the Commonwealth. The raises will cost Cambridge about $1,500,000 and will add five dollars to the tax rate...
...spread their ignorance and misinformation-and people believe all those nuts because they hear it on the radio," complained one school official. Some callers, for example, falsely claimed that the school board had extra money hidden away, and that the state would pick up any operating deficit. The tax increase lost by a scant 1,366 votes...
...latest tax increase would have passed easily if Youngstown's powerful unions had supported it, but organized labor has long felt estranged from the city's schools. Until recently, the school board had no labor-oriented representatives. School officials failed to support a United Steelworkers plan to open a community college in Youngstown that would have provided more opportunities for high-level vocational instruction. The main source of friction was a rivalry over who should represent the city's teachers in contract negotiations: the local affiliate of the National Education Association or the growing Youngstown Federation...
Youngstown hopes to reopen its schools early next year, when regular taxes again come due, but the board must try again at the polls for an increase that will allow them to stay open. Meanwhile, Youngstown's cantankerous voters inadvertently helped school systems elsewhere in Ohio. School supporters in Akron won a tax increase by waging a highly effective word-of-mouth campaign with the argument "Let's not become another Youngstown...