Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stress this altered liberal outlook, Dukakis talks about more strictly enforcing income tax collection and raising taxes only as a last resort. He emphasizes turning welfare programs into workfare programs. (In Massachusetts he has instituted the Employment and Training Choices Program, which encourages people to work instead of sitting at home and accepting government handouts...
Bush has spoken about federal efforts to aid working mothers by giving them tax breaks for day care. He has discussed efforts to simulate Dukakis' universal health care plan with a plan of his own to give the middle class the opportunity to "buy into" medicare. And he has seemingly backed down on Reagan's committment to go ahead full throttle with both research and deployment of SDI. In fact, both candidates have adopted strikingly similar positions on SDI which stress research, with deployment contingent upon further scientific developments...
...million dollar television advertising blitz aimed at discrediting liberals. A bloated, white-haired, red-faced politician--an obvious caricature of then-Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill--was shown trying to drive a sputtering jalopy running out of gas. In 1984, the Republicans successfully added the "tax-and-spend label" to the Democratic image, and liberals began to call themselves "neo-liberals" and "progressives...
...same moral commitment to expanding federal involvement in housing [as the protesters]," Mahoney said. "He only differs on the mechanism for spending tax dollars." The spokesman said Kennedy will vote for the Frank bill if it comes to the floor, but he refuses to cosponsor...
...Governor Dukakis was seeking renomination, and Sasso was supervising a statewide amendment against raising the tax rates of residential properties. Sasso won, Dukakis lost. They met shortly afterward. Sasso was impressed, and they stayed in touch. In 1980 Sasso helped organize Ted Kennedy's challenge against Jimmy Carter and was an effective Kennedy field director in Iowa and New Jersey. Sasso then signed on for Dukakis' 1982 comeback attempt, helping create Mike II, the newly mellowed conciliator. Notes Alan Baron, a longtime Democratic strategist: "Sasso can deal with people who really dislike Dukakis." Sasso became the Governor's chief secretary...