Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theater unsure if it is trying to appeal to the audience's sense of justice or be a lightheaded comedy. By the end of the movie, no one has won--not the docile Pignon, not the nouveau riche Bronchant, not the show-stealing Daniel Prevost in the role of tax inspector Cheval. What starts off as a simple reversal of roles, with the idiot turning the tables on the yuppies, ends up not being a reversal at all; if anything, these characters seem more locked than ever into their stiff socio-economic roles, returning to their unhappy lives...
...Republican moderates decided to spare neophyte Speaker Dennis Hastert the embarrassment. In exchange for a hastily scrawled amendment tying the later years of a 10-year, $792 billion tax cut to promised reductions in the national debt, the "Hell no" folks said "What the heck" and climbed aboard a GOP ship that, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, won?t sail very far anyway. "If Clinton got this as the final bill, he?d veto it," he says. "This is merely an opening gambit for the most ravenous tax-cutters in the party ?- Bill Archer & Co. in the House...
...budget deal done in 1997," Branegan says. "They were just stopgaps. For the Republicans to say that they?ll stick to them for the next 10 years - when they?ve already signaled this year that they?re headed out the window - is just unrealistic. Any tax cut based on those figures will be unable to be paid for without deep cuts that neither side is willing to make." The White House knows it, the Senate knows it, and judging by the polls ?- which still favor Clinton and his mantra of "first things first" (Medicare and education) - the public senses...
...Republicans are betting the House on this one. GOP leaders pushed their $792 billion tax cut toward the House floor Thursday for a midafternoon vote, despite the fact that a veto by President Clinton is assured ? and despite the fact that the measure?s biggest problem right now is Republicans themselves. Speaker Denny Hastert is cracking the party whip as hard as he can ? and he?s not afraid to beg, either, telling members that the GOP?s slender majority (not to mention his own job) is riding on this vote. And he?s breaking the first rule of congressional...
...Hastert has a numbers problem. CNN reports that eight to 10 GOPers are still in the "hell no" category when it comes to the big tax cut ? plenty enough to sink the bill when the 211 Democrats and one independent are a sure thing to stick together. Mostly moderates, led by Michael Castle of Delaware, the GOP rebels have a $514 billion cut in mind ?- more in line with what?s moving through the Senate these days (with bipartisan support), and a lot closer to what Bill Clinton might actually consider signing. But House GOP bigwigs like tax hawk Bill...