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...somewhat disappointed," Turk said. "Our strongest opposition is against the tenant tax because it is regressive, unworkable and illegal--you can't just tax tenants because they are tenants. Also, the tax would eventually find its way down to the low-income tenants...
...loan fund of a million dollars wouldn't even come close to solving the money problem, and I wouldn't want more debts anyway," the Cambridge native said. "Also, why can't the owners just get more money through a higher cap than with a tenant tax? Give me the money and I'll put it into the buildings. I don't want a third party involved...
Finally, a New Paradigm agenda would include selling public housing to tenants in order to decrease the government's involvement and encourage tenant responsibility. This sort of plan, New Paradigm supporters say, would empower the poor by forcing tenants to take a greater responsibility for their own lives...
Ellwood notes that strategies such as tenant management and enterprise zones are generally aimed at very urban areas. His research indicates, however, that only seven to 10 percent of poor Americans live in city ghettos...
...attempt to mollify the restive right, whose members are still steamed about the way Bush orphaned his "no new taxes" pledge last year. Darman met nearly a dozen times in recent weeks with House Republicans and included in the budget a number of items -- enterprise zones, incentives for tenant ownership of public housing -- that are dear to conservative hearts. But Administration officials admit privately that some of these, such as Bush's inevitable pitch for lower capital-gains taxes, are included simply to keep the right quiet. Said a senior Administration official: "We're trying to fool them as long...