Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back and do a lot of research on the campaign. Go back and check. You know, Dukakis got on me on ((the Administration's surcharge for)) catastrophic illness, claiming that was a tax. I said, "I don't think it was a tax." That might be a helpful guide ((to what I mean...
...things like means testing of Social Security benefits for wealthy people might not be a tax...
...forces work best, but there are situations where they don't work perfectly." Boskin's primary concern about the U.S. economy is its low savings and investment rate, a problem he attributes partly to the high deficits of the Reagan era. The economist concedes that the Reagan Administration's tax cuts did not inspire the increased saving his research says they should have, but he maintains his faith in the incentive power of such policies...
...proceed to the right thing? Last week's signals from Budget Director-designate Richard Darman were intriguing. At the outset, Darman seemed willing to raise new revenues if euphemisms like "definitional changes" and "user fees" could be substituted for the word tax. Then, in a yin-yang reminiscent of the early 1980s, when he helped craft Reagan's acceptance of revenue enhancements, Darman backed off, invoking the "duck test." No matter what a revenue raiser is called, he told Congress, if it looks like a tax and sounds like a tax, and people perceive it to be a tax...
...growers should pay their pickers nearly twice the legal minimum wage, which can be less than $2 a day. When some landholders refused to cooperate, armed guerrillas hijacked truckloads of newly harvested beans and redistributed the stolen booty to the pickers. Other landowners who balked at paying a "war tax" to finance the insurgency have been burned...