Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revenue-enhancement measures" or, in plain English, tax increases. Reagan has ruled out any reduction or delay in the 25%, three-year cut in income tax rates that he bulled through Congress last summer. Thus his aides are floating ideas for raising other taxes: excise (sales) taxes on liquor, tobacco and gasoline, and taxes on some specific types of business transactions...
...taxpayers about $3 billion in the past fiscal year. The reason, as usual, is politics: the White House agreed to continue supporting certain commodities in exchange for needed votes on its tax and budget bills. Complained Democratic Congressman Bob Shamansky of Ohio, after losing a battle to end tobacco protection: "Instead of democracy in action, we had hypocrisy in action...
...totally different bill that would increase dairy and grain subsidies but would eliminate protection for sugar and peanuts. The Senate bill would cost at least $7 billion over the next four years; the House bill would cost $13 billion. The only ones totally pleased with the bills were Southern tobacco planters. Their peculiar allotment system remained untouched in both versions, and presumably will survive this week's negotiations to reconcile the measures...
...Administration was against the dairy and grain subsidy increases. But representatives from Midwestern farm states were defiant, partly because the White House had earlier agreed to maintain subsidies on sugar, peanuts and tobacco as a way of gaining Southern Democratic votes for its economic package. In fact, resentment over those deals led to a breakdown of the traditional backscratching among Southern and Midwestern Representatives. After winning their grain and dairy supports, most Midwesterners joined other Congressmen to defeat a package of sugar and peanut programs that had been passed by the Senate. Caught between principles and promises, the Administration stood...
Another important category of pollutants brought up at the conference was aerosols, tiny particles usually associated with household cleaning and personal care products and with tobacco smoke. Certain particles originally thought to come from outside air, like aluminum, might originate indoors instead...