Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personal income tax, the only place in the nation where neither levy is imposed. But this year, shortly before the election, 80,000 utility bills were mailed out across the state with a special surtax to pay for the controversial Seabrook nuclear power plant. Thomson had refused to veto a bill prohibiting that special charge and was suddenly cast as a less vigilant opponent of added taxation than his opponent, Democrat Hugh Gallen. An independent candidate, former Republican Governor Wesley Powell, drained some 12,000 Republican votes away from the Governor, contributing to Gallen's 10,400-vote victory margin...
...think it boils down to how the post-revolutionary regime there perceives the aid it's had. If sufficient pressures can be marshaled in the West to remove that veto from the Security Council, to start getting the West to behave as if it believes what it says, then there would be a chance of a reasonably democratic constitution. On the other hand if there is a long, bitter, drawn-out racial civil war, with an ever-growing need for the black liberation groups to get their aid from Russia and China, the new government won't be all that...
...prime contributor to inflation, from $66 billion in Gerald Ford's last year as President, to less than $40 billion in the current fiscal year. He pledged to cut it to "$30 billion or less" next year. As part of the effort to do so, he said he would veto any plan for any income tax cut beyond the $18.7 billion slash recently enacted by Congress, even though "tax reduction has never been more politically popular than it is today...
...promised to hold down Government spending, partly by cutting 20,000 workers from federal payrolls through attrition; to keep a 5½% limit on pay raises for federal employees; and to permit no pay increase at all this year for Government executives. Carter noted that he had already used his veto to stop inflationary spending proposed by Congress and would not hesitate to do so again. "We must face a time of national austerity," he said. "Hard choices are necessary if we want to avoid consequences that are even worse...
...hear the President place his main emphasis on measures aimed at the basic causes of inflation: excessive Government spending and regulations that add needlessly to the cost of doing business." While voicing some reservations, Carter Murphy, head of Southern Methodist University's economics department, viewed Carter's promise to veto more tax cuts as "a courageous political decision...