Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specific restructuring plan has not yet been worked out, but Texas has agreed that it is unfair that the children of Edgewood, a lower middle-class residential district with low property values, receive an inferior education. One possible remedy under consideration is allotting funds based on sales tax instead of property tax...
Although it is a non-profit institution and therefore exempt from most taxes. Harvard is still the city's largest taxpayer. The University pays millions of dollars in property taxes on its non-academic land holdings--including property managed by Harvard Real Estate--and also makes a voluntary tax payment of approximately $950,000 on its academic land and buildings...
...West Tampa Political Group's steering committee -- some 30 men, many in their 70s and 80s -- chatted excitedly with three local politicians who stopped by for a little backslapping. "Everyone knows what he is supposed to do," Fabian told his attentive troops as he introduced them to an aspiring tax accessory. "We have to fight hard for this man and make sure no one loses his home because of high taxes...
...through the Central Committee last week a set of reforms that would limit the terms of most officials (though not including himself) to ten years and institute secret ballots for legislative and party posts. His tentative steps in favor of private enterprise even provoked the Soviet Union's first tax revolt, when its national parliament showed for once that it could be more than a rubber stamp. That could make perestroika all the more endearing to Americans, who have a special affinity for revolutions that involve tax revolts. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 65% of Americans said they...
...road image last week by quipping that Dukakis "has liberal dreams, but at this point a conservative set of numbers to pay for his dreams." While the label "fiscal conservative" might seem opprobrious to Jackson, it is a compliment in many places, including California, the cradle of the 1970s tax revolt...