Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tax reform bill, a measure that eliminated dozens of cherished tax breaks altogether, Congress limited T and E deductions to 80 percent of their cost. That is a step in the right direction, but it isn't nearly enough. Wealthy investment bankers do not deserve any government handout...
...Dinkins' double-digit lead in the polls. Giuliani launched a subtle appeal to the fears of white voters and exploited widespread disgust with the corruption that plagued Koch's final term by raising troubling questions about Dinkins' monumentally sloppy handling of his personal finances, including failure to file income tax forms for four years in the early 1970s...
...regular, inescapable need for new borrowing authority has inspired Democrats and Republicans alike to play dangerous, self-serving games. Hoping to revive Bush's cherished reduction in the capital-gains tax, Senate Republicans considered attaching it to the debt-ceiling legislation. Majority Leader George Mitchell, increasingly playing the role of an unyielding Horatius at the Bridge, blocked them. Democrats similarly toyed with piggybacking onto the debt bill measures that Bush would veto if passed separately. Both sides backed off only when the nation was on the brink of insolvency...
...want to get the government mad at you -- even a local government. I once wrote an article critical of New York City's tax department. Two months later, I was summoned to a three-year audit. At the time the city was auditing only about one New Yorker a day -- out of 8 million -- but it was probably just coincidence they chose...
...like the U.S. Government, in the person of former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. That's what money manager James Sutton ("Jay") Regan, 47, seems to have done. His firm, Princeton/Newport Partners, was charged with making a series of bogus trades in 1984 and '85 to claim tax losses. The trades were shams, argued the Government, because though Princeton/Newport really did sell securities in which it really did have losses, the firm didn't really sell them because it had an unwritten deal to buy them back later at about the same price...