Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Windfall Tax on Housing...
...homeowner, I regret your revealing that house prices have soared from $27,600 in 1972 to $62,900 in May [July 23]. President Carter and Congress may see those figures and slap a "windfall profits" tax on anyone who sells a home. Such a levy would be consistent with the windfall profits tax on oil companies. After all, the homeowner has done nothing to reap that gain-it is a true windfall...
Congress has yielded to the narrow interests on energy issues time and time again." He asked his listeners to lobby their Congressmen to support the windfall profits tax on oil companies...
Carter's excursions are just part of a new Administration campaign to sell its energy ideas to the public. White House staffers and members of the Energy Department have formed subcommittees to pursue 13 different goals, including winning approval of the synthetic fuels bill and the windfall profits tax. Last week Carter proposed using $1.6 billion of the projected revenue from the tax next winter to help poor people pay the rising costs of heating their homes...
...Government rejected Chrysler's plea that it receive aid in the form of either federal tax refunds or immediate relief from having to meet the costly safety, environment and mileage standards on new cars. Miller said the former idea would amount to an "interest-free, unsecured cash advance from taxpayers' funds." Instead, he recommended Government loan guarantees that will have to be approved by Congress and will "total considerably less than $1 billion...