Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CLARK is extremely weak on other election issues, too. In one breath, he severely criticizes Trudeau for failing to control inflation, and in the next, promises to stimulate the economy. He has proposed a $2 billion income tax cut, which would almost certainly cause more inflation. He relies heavily on the economic theories of New York Republican congressman Jack Kemp's balanced budget, which Martin Feldstein, professor of Economics, has called something "politicians can digest in 30 seconds and talk about for months." Clark also said he would dissolve the nationally-owned corporation Petro-Canada, a concession to Lougheed, despite...
...Tax Revolt and the Elderly--Richard Manley, president, Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, Boston Public Library...
...current earnings from existing operations, viz., allowing the South African affiliate to depreciate, or, in plain English, "run into the ground." Without new infusions of capital, either in the form of new investment or retained earnings, plants and equipment rapidly lose their economic value and become obsolete. Naturally, the tax code makes provision for the deprecation of assets, permitting the parent company to "write off," so to speak, their losses...
Thatcher won because she and her party--like the New Right in the U.S.--managed to shift the consensus from the middle of the road. A revealing poll on issues in the British newspaper Observer showed a majority (and even a majority of Labour supporters) favouring Tory proposals on tax cuts, on getting tougher with the unions and strikers, and on reducing government involvement in the economy. Labour might have staked out a clear alternative to this on the Left with proposals for industrial democracy, more public ownership, and social service and welfare reform--all elements that have traditionally given...
That leaves only drastic cuts in social and welfare programs to finance the tax-cuts--and here we come to an uncanny similarity between the position of Mrs. Thatcher and that of Gov. Edward J. King in Massachusetts--except that in Britain there will be no liberal state legislature to mitigate savage reductions in help for the elderly, poor, sick and disadvantaged...