Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University Junior Alison Wondriska, 20, took a window-to-window census. Calling on small restaurants and shops as well as firms located in nearby high-rises, Wondriska determined that 1,600 windows had full views of the site. Some people gave even more than their share, and the window tax campaign raised some $8,700 within eight months. Next week Connecticut will celebrate Rededication Day to mark the completion of work on the building...
Some of the companies paid the $5 fees themselves; others asked for contributions from their employees. Henceforth, the tax will be collected annually, and contributors will receive tax stamps in the form of decals which they can paste on their windows-presumably in spots that will not obstruct the view...
...with any tax law, though, complications exist. "There are questions to be raised," says Babbidge. "Will the viewing rights tax not be seen as an insidious first step toward taxation of intangible wealth? Doesn't simple fairness suggest that windows of differing size be assessed differently? How about pedestrians, bus riders and loiterers: are they to be freeloaders while the middle class is once again taxed to subsidize their pleasures?" Such problems aside, there is still some comfort for the assessed: the window tax is taxdeductible...
...hospitals, the district faced up to a grim conclusion: the present total of 8,000 students, already down 3,000 from the 1968 record of 11,000, would drop to 6,000 in five years. At the same time, townspeople voted down a $2 million increase in the property tax. Says Gail Curry, president of the Willard School P.T.A.: "The people were saying they didn't want to pay government any more taxes, and the school tax was the only one they had any direct vote...
...this age of "me-first" politics, it took great courage for President Carter to exercise his authority to decontrol the price of oil. However, his plan to nullify the good effects of price decontrol by imposing a "windfall profits" tax on the oil companies is an ill-considered act of misguided Populist sentiment. We're the Nobil Corporation, and we're in the business of discovering, pumping, refining, shipping and selling oil, so you can believe us when we tell you that "windfall profits" aren't for our benefit, they're for yours...