Word: taxingly
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...school spending between wealthy towns and less fortunate ones. At issue are the most basic values parents teach children: Be fair. Share. Play nice. According to Vermont's supreme court, obeying the rules of the sandbox meant replacing the state's old school-funding system, in which local property taxes generally paid for local education, because doing things that way had led to terrific schools in affluent communities (especially those graced with ski slopes or resort lakes) and threadbare facilities for the have-nots. Under Act 60, the well off now face higher property taxes and slashed school budgets, while...
...receives a minimum spending level but allowing towns to collect extra funds for their own use. Vermont's supreme court, however, standing on the landmark 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision, ruled that the state had to go another step toward equity by creating a statewide property tax (Kansas is the only other state to have one) and ensuring that such levies are shared...
WASHINGTON: If anyone's wondering what middle-class married couples have to do with the crimes of Big Tobacco, Texas Republican Phil Gramm is the man to ask. "If we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back?" Gramm said after his amendment to the tobacco legislation passed the Senate Thursday. It would use a slice of the $516 billion that John McCain, the bill's sponsor, envisions collecting from the industry to finance dropping the "marriage tax" penalty for couples earning less than $50,000 a year...
...that? As TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson says, "This was awfully hard to be against. It's a middle-class tax cut in an election year, and it gives the Republicans cover." The GOP, after all, is supposed to cut taxes, not raise them. Gramm is happy because it's a tax cut. McCain is happy because his bill is still alive. But more than a few Democrats are starting to worry that the money in the tobacco kitty, which was supposed to save our children from Joe Camel, is being handed out in all the wrong places...
...Republicans think the bill looks too much like tax-and-spend liberalism; they want to add tax cuts. Democrats like the bill as is; they're trying -- so far in vain -- to close debate and force a vote on the existing version. It's a good old-fashioned Senate stalemate, and suddenly the tobacco industry has something to chuckle about: An ugly Beltway bill is headed for an ugly Beltway funeral...