Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, two months from now, I'll sit in my tax guy's office and sign a government form under a line that says, "Under penalty of perjury, I hereby attest that every statement herein, every jot and tittle and numerical figure and punctuation mark, is absolutely and utterly true and complete, otherwise God help me," and even though I have no idea what statements are herein and the form may as well be written in Hittite, I will sign my name and so attest. My tax guy has other customers waiting. I look down at the word perjury...
...daughter's Girl Scout cookie revenues, the 20s you palmed from the collection plate--Did you remember to declare them as income?) And of course your mind is going to focus better if now and then someone is shot by a firing squad for making false statements on a tax return...
...have unified around the smallest imaginable issue: Clinton. Yet it is Clinton who provides the G.O.P. with its best opportunity to regain its bearing. He has set up a classic confrontation by reopening the era of Big Government. His 1999 State of the Union address previewed 81 new tax increases. With breathtaking paternalism and condescension, he wagged his finger at a postspeech pep-rally audience and declared, "I guess we could return the surplus to you and hope you'll spend it right...
...enthusiasm for solar energy ebbed in the '80s after President Reagan ended tax credits for alternative power sources. Judy Corbett, who had been appointed to California's Solar Cal Council by Governor Jerry Brown, suddenly found herself without a job when his successor, George Deukmejian, pulled the plug on the agency. So she set up a nonprofit organization called the Local Government Commission to help educate officials on ways to deal with social and environmental problems. "It was clear to me that without mayors and city council managers and supervisors undertaking the lead in making things change, Village Homes could...
...talking about this next week. You have the Linda Tripp grand jury in Maryland. You have Julie Hiatt Steele. You have the whole Kathleen Willey situation. You have the President's possible civil and criminal liabilities. You have the various investigations into Ken Starr. You have Webb Hubbell's tax evasion..." You have the idea...