Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy said yesterday officials requested a bigger increase, adding that tax-exempt organizations like Harvard and MIT should give the city a little more than they already...
Harvard will pay the city more than $1.4 million this year, including $900,000 in direct taxes the University pays on property voluntarily kept on the tax rolls, Brewer said...
...pronounced protectionist sentiment also emerged from the survey. Fifty-seven percent said adding a tax to imported goods to bring them into line with American-made products would help control prices. On the other hand, more than 60% rejected limiting the availability of mortgages as a way to control housing prices, and nearly 90% turned down a tax increase as a way of reducing total demand for goods...
High rents and Proposition 13, which granted tax relief to property owners but not to renters, have stirred up California's tenants; they had appealed to landlords to pass on a portion of their tax savings to them, but many landlords refused to do so. As a consequence, Santa Monica enacted one of the stiffest control laws in the country and rolled all rents back to the levels of April 1978. Since November, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Davis and parts of Beverly Hills have voted for rent control. San Diego consumerists are agitating to get rent control on the ballot...
...addition, despite his populist rhetoric, Carter seems to be doing his best to insure that the energy conglomerates will walk away with the windfall profits resulting from decontrol. First, his tax proposal, billed as a 50 per cent windfall profits tax would actually tax only 18 per cent of the added revenues that oil companies will rake in from early decontrol, according to The Wall Street Journal. But more seriously, Carter has not made decontrol contingent on the passage of any profits tax...