Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stem the government's deficit spending, which reached $9.7 billion last year, Menem plans to increase revenues by simplifying the tax-collection system and increasing levies on exported goods. But most economists believe that Menem's most important task will be to privatize Argentina's inefficient state-owned monopolies, which are losing $4 billion annually. Menem may get the power to do so if the Argentine Congress approves a new emergency law that would give him almost unlimited control over the nationalized companies. But Menem has so far offered no details about his privatization drive. Those particulars are not likely...
...Cambridge is in a little bit better shape this year than almost all other cities and towns in Massachusetts because it is currently taxing below its levy limit [as regulated by Proposition 2 1/2]," Maloney said. "It's our hope not to tax more, but that cannot be decided...
...hostility of this place certainly had its effect," Collins said, referring to the recent budget and tax debates. "We appreciate the support we've had in the Senate and hope it will continue...
Boston landlords who tolerate drug dealing on their property now "run the risk of making a charitable, non tax-deductible contribution" of that property to the government, U.S. Attorney Wayne A. Budd said at a press conference...
State-sponsored gambling is nowhere near the bonanza for states it has been sold as. Illinois and Ohio, among other states, have reduced tax-paid financing of schools as the lottery cash came in. "So," says James Smith, superintendent of the Wolf Branch School in Belleville, Ill., "the real benefit is zero." Less than zero, actually. Smith complains that he cannot get a bond issue authorized because local officials think that schools are rolling in lottery money. Says Thomas Cummings, head of the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling: "Before this thing is through, there will be a legal bookie...