Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they suggest a "better way"? Well, they state repeatedly that they refuse to accept the premise of our economy, namely self-interest. But they don't propose any solutions. Here are a few possibilities: raise personal income taxes to 75 percent on the incomes over $100,000, double welfare benefits or tax the hell out of goods produced in un-unionized firms and countries...
...ready to take on the largest, most popular and most politically treacherous social program ever devised. His statement was easily written off as a blocking tactic aimed at stopping Republicans from plowing the budget surplus (now projected to be as high as $75 billion this year alone) into tax cuts. But last week, in the first of four promised forums on Social Security, Clinton proved he was serious by opening the door a crack to the radical--and, to Democratic traditionalists, heretical--idea of "privatizing" at least part of the system...
...year-old Mexican American with the radio handle "Bedlam," whose Los Angeles station, Radio Clandestino, broadcasts leftist Chicano fare; Rick Strawcutter, a Fundamentalist pastor from Adrian, Mich., who is battling the FCC in federal court for the right to air right-winger Bo Gritz and rail against income tax; two guys from Radio Free Bakersfield who play the homegrown punk-rock bands the commercial stations ignore; and a 19-year-old Milwaukee, Wis., waitress with pink-and-purple hair who reads from Winnie-the-Pooh on her Radio Free Bob children's hour. "There's no difference between microradio...
...nothing -- and said everything. "The U.S. is being quite candid," says TIME business correspondent Bernard Baumohl. "Japan must do something to revive their economy." What the U.S. has in mind are not only long-term structural reforms but a very simple short-term Keynesian solution of government spending and tax cuts. But despite repeated promises by Prime Minister Hashimoto, Japan's government has been frustratingly slow...
...There's a battle among Hashimoto's own people," says Baumohl. "Many of them are intent on further reducing the budget deficit -- tax reduction would knock them off that course." But in recessionary times, belt-tightening (as the U.S. learned under Herbert Hoover) can be disastrous. Instead of leading the recovery in Asia, Japan's doldrums are suppressing it. The rest of the world is waiting...