Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-off and contends that income differentials must be justified. But all the Difference Principle asks is that the inequalities in society be harnessed to provide some benefit to the poor. Rawls' "Justice as Fairness" is not about levelling equality. A more truly Rawlsian policy might be adjusting marginal tax rates on high incomes and channeling the revenue to the less well...
Another petition would make various changes in the state income tax, the state sales tax and local property taxes...
...petition comes as the Dukakis administration has threatened deeper cuts in local aid. The initiative would provide "a guaranteed formula that returns to the cities and towns a fair share of tax dollars...the basic services every community needs," said Peabody Mayor Peter Torigian, the committee's chair...
Some questions filed this year-- particularly the four calling for changes in the state tax law--may conflict. If voters approve conflicting changes in the law, the court will have to decide which initiative survives, Connolly said...
...measure to force the state to roll back any tax increases made this year or next to their 1988 levels within the next two years...