Word: taxing
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...modern history. The "misery index" -- that combination of inflation and unemployment rates that the Democrats invoked to bedevil Gerald Ford in 1976 -- now stands at less than 10, roughly half what it was when Jimmy Carter left office. Reagan has also fulfilled his antigovernment pledge to drastically slash income-tax rates...
...21st century." At the very least, he has defined the political debate. Opinion polls show some vague unease about the economy's future, along with renewed interest in federal solutions for a variety of domestic ills. Still, Reagan's preachments about the evils of Big Government and high progressive tax rates continue to dominate the political landscape. Even his failures, the most monumental being the nation's mounting debt, have served to constrain the discussion. Recalling Reagan's record as Governor of California in a lead editorial recently, the Los Angeles Times noted that "in subtle ways, Reagan made...
...will be making the acceptance speech on Thursday. By breeding and association, he is part of the Establishment that Reagan challenged in 1976 and defeated in 1980. But enough of Reagan's original agenda has been adopted to slake the most urgent thirsts of the right wing. The income-tax monster has been shrunk, the Democratic Congress is leery of huge new programs, the Viet Nam syndrome no longer paralyzes American foreign policy, and the federal judiciary has been Reaganized. "In this environment," says Burton Pines of the Heritage Foundation, "it's harder than it was eight, ten years...
...work or travel and are subject to arrest. Near the Erez checkpoint on the Israeli border, Gaza drivers lined up every day starting at 3 a.m. for license plates that specifically identify the car owner's camp or town. At Gaza military headquarters, other Palestinians waited for proof-of-tax-payment stamps that they need to obtain travel permits and birth certificates. All the red tape is intended to rebuild Gaza's dependence on Israel and, incidentally, provide the government with up-to-date information on Palestinians living in the strip...
...camps from erupting anew. When the local council of Al Bureij resigned under orders from intifadeh's leaders, the Israelis placed the refugee camp under 24-hour curfew for two weeks. The army cut power lines and waterlines, and barred the men from working in Israel for one month. Tax raids conducted block by block netted about $90,000. Says a senior official of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency: "Israel wants the population to come and say they've had enough...