Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Retired Burger King Executive Harry Wilson formed the Dade Tax Revolt Committee in Miami last fall and set out to halve the county property tax rate, to $4 per $1,000 of assessed value. He gathered 15,000 signatures to put the proposition on the ballot next month. But the best laid schemes of tax revolutionaries gang aft agley. Because of a whopper of an error, Wilson's petition stated the proposed new rate as 4 mills per $1,000, meaning, for example, that the tax on a $100,000 house would be only 40?, rather than...
...election will cost $400,000, which is more than quadruple the county's entire projected property tax revenues if the cut passes. All of which comes from making a mountain out of a whole mill...
...government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan. They are especially enraged by the Pasdaran, who they say treat them "like a conquered province." Kurdish expectations are articulated in the platform of the Kurdish Democratic Party, which calls for locally elected city and provincial councils with responsibility for police courts and tax collecting...
Soaring oil costs not only boost inflation but also act as a direct tax on U.S. consumers, draining buying power from the domestic economy...
Cannily laying the blame for Chrysler's bloodletting on federal safety, mileage and emission regulations, Chairman Riccardo is asking Congress for $1 billion in tax refunds, exactly the amount that meeting Government standards will cost the company between now and the fall of 1980. By then lacocca will produce those front-wheel drive Mustangs-in-Chrysler-clothing that are supposed to restore the company's competitive edge...