Word: wisconsin
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...California taxpayers may meet when Proposition 13 goes into effect, their overwhelming support of the measure sends a powerful message to Washington, and there is some evidence that Washington is beginning to take heed. In what a Capitol Hill observer calls "one of the legislative surprises of the year," Wisconsin's Republican Congressman William Steiger has mustered astonishing support for a proposal to cut the capital-gains tax from a maximum rate of 49% to 25%. Though the Administration dismisses it as a "fat cat" proposal, Steiger's measure has won endorsement from 61 Senators and, in the name...
...drastic increase. The Carter Administration drafted a proposal to tax all capital gains at full ordinary-income rates ?which would effectively double the tax in many cases?but eventually sent Congress a recommendation for a much smaller rise. That still worried Representative William Steiger, 40, a baby-faced Wisconsin Republican who has the gung-ho style of a JayCee president. Therefore, on April 13 he introduced a counterproposal: an amendment to lower capital-gains taxes, indeed to cut them almost in half on the biggest profits. Steiger intended only a blocking maneuver, but he has found himself leading...
...shake the eye teeth of the . . . pointy-headed bureaucrats." He galloped along shouting "law and order" as a code term for anti-black prejudice, and although he lost the Democrat ic nomination to Lyndon Johnson, he captured 29% to 43% of the vote in the Indiana, Maryland and Wisconsin primaries...
...joke when Weidenbaum brings forth sheaves of records of dozens of foundries-in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky-that had to close because they could not afford to meet requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He collects reports of hundreds of small companies that have abandoned pension plans because they could not comply with the expensive requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), "and so the worker winds up with no pension...
...Aspin, Congressman from Wisconsin: "The CIA can't be the only arbiter of what is or isn't classified. There ought to be somebody you can appeal to -an arbitrator set up by an act of Congress...