Word: taxingly
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...reputation as the architect of reinventing government. Even more ominous is another threat: starting this summer, phone companies that were ordered to pay for the program are threatening to add a new charge to the long-distance bills of residential consumers. Critics are already calling it the Gore Tax...
...have begun to hear similar complaints. At a hearing in February, Congressman Ed Bryant, a Tennessee Republican, waved a copy of a telephone bill sent him by a constituent who was confused and angry over the $4 surcharge his company was having to pay. "How shall I explain this tax to my constituent?" Bryant demanded. "Do I tell him I voted to place that tax on him to support schools and libraries on the other side of the continent...
...fewer than 100 of Forrest County's 8,000 voting-age blacks were registered. Dahmer would drive neighbors to the courthouse and watch in frustration as the white registrar found reasons to turn them away. Eventually, Dahmer got the sheriff to sign out to him a poll-tax receipt book, and Dahmer announced over the radio that blacks could register at his grocery. "I said, 'I wouldn't do this if I were you,'" recalls J.C. Fairley, a friend and fellow N.A.A.C.P. activist. "'You're out there by yourself--they can easily get to you.'" And they did, the first...
...have to finance campaigns for candidates or ideas that the workers may not support? In recent years some California unions have backed the controversial initiative to legalize medical marijuana and opposed the popular referendum on illegal aliens. "This is one of those issues, like term limits, racial preferences and tax reform, that can't move through Washington, so it's moving through the states," says Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform...
With the exception of Donald Fisher, CEO of Gap, Inc., who has been a prominent donor to the 226 effort, California businesses have been staying out of this fight. To make sure they do, labor has threatened to introduce counter-initiatives that could negatively affect the tax status of corporations that make political contributions. And by some interpretations, Prop. 226 could be used to require corporations to get their stockholders' permission before making political contributions...