Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tactic. They baited the President into a summit and then switched on him." The Democrats in fact are likely to use this package of tax increases as a lever to pry concessions out of the White House at the domestic summit. Though Reagan has withdrawn his frequent pledges to veto anything resembling a tax increase, he has made no secret of his reluctance to go any further than he absolutely must to get a deficit-reduction package...
Instead, he proposed a "consociational" set-up, where each group would have autonomy in its own affairs, and where each group could veto government policies which might harm its interests. His version of consociationalism requires that the elites of each group trust and cooperate with each other, and that each elite control its followers. "In essence," he wrote, "it is an elite conspiracy to restrain political competition within and among communal groups...
...large, with universal adult franchise.But the other chamber would be formed throughracially-divided voters' rolls, with 10representatives for each racial or language groupand a final category for people choosing to vote a"nonracial" roll. Each separate bloc of Afrikaans,English, Zulu, Asian and 'non-racial'representatives would have veto power overimportant government decisions--which means anysingle group could block attempts to fundamentallyalter apartheid...
...markets might continue to weaken and the economy might take a real turn for the worse. That, he continued, might give the Democrats enough political clout to shove through a big increase severely trimming back Reagan's cherished tax cuts, either by ramming one through over the President's veto or by winning the 1988 election and enacting a stiff boost after Reagan left office. The President showed great reluctance to accept the advice that he should compromise on a modest boost now. But, says one participant, eventually the "President bought the ((Greenspan)) argument that if the economy goes down...
...exception of Social Security, with no other preconditions." Including a tax increase? Though he could not quite bring himself to pronounce those words, Reagan clearly indicated that, well, yes, he would at least discuss the subject. Reminded again and again by reporters of his many previous pledges to veto anything resembling a tax increase, he refused to repeat any such pledge; he merely said both spending and taxes should be kept "as low as possible...