Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...healthiest lifestyle is the only viable one. Should it be found that active smokers tend to live longer than sedentary non-smokers, our treasured liberty to do nothing may go the way of our liberty to smoke. Televisions could join alcohol and cigarettes by getting their very own "sin" tax. One American icon, the couch potato, might join another, the Marlboro Man, as a target of paternalism...
...course, should I return to smoking, someone will tell me of the harms and undoubtedly mention his concern for my health. I will thank him and hope that he finds some solace in the benefits he derives from the exorbitant taxes on cigarettes. By that time, the president's proposed $1.50 per pack federal tax will likely...
...Means Committee. "You beat us." Indeed he had, and with surprising ease. In the final legislative battle over Ronald Reagan's economic program, 48 House Democrats deserted their party to help the President win a 238-to-195 victory on a vote for a bill that provides the largest tax cut in U.S. history. "We have made a new beginning," exulted the President. If not a revolution. Not since the first six months of Franklin Roosevelt's Administration has a new President done so much of such magnitude so quickly to change the economic direction of the nation...
While Suharto has resisted the bitter medicine of the IMF program, Japan is deaf to foreign calls for deeper tax cuts to rouse its long dormant economy, traditionally the engine of growth for the Pacific Rim. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Congress last week that the Japanese economy was "sinking." Asked whether Japan was doing enough to stimulate the economy, the usually circumspect Greenspan replied, "No, I think...
...most important weapon in the government's considerable measurements arsenal. It forms the basis for annual benefits adjustments to some 80 million voters, from union workers and Social Security recipients to government retirees. Funding for food stamps and school lunches is pegged to the CPI, as are income tax exemptions and deductions and the break points between tax brackets...