Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Raising taxes to make it seem they're doing something about the deficit may be a wise (if cynical) political move, but it does little to combat the mess into which the budget process has descended. As the deficit-reduction package of 1982 showed, increases in revenue are rarely used to combat the deficit--they usually end up as a justification for more pork-barrel spending...
...piano lessons and gymnastics at the local community center. The army wives fill out their time volunteering on the nearest base or at the Department of Defense school. The army officers drive off to the military base or the NATO complex every day and do their work. They all make it home by seven to watch clips of the major network news and then current episodes of "Roseanne" and the "Wonder Years...
...call for a combination of increased income taxes on the rich and a capital gains tax cut. According to conservative theory, the richest Americans would not lose money as long as they increase their capital gains investments sufficiently. But the majority of House and Senate Republicans still refuse to make this compromise--primarily because their political careers rest on mindless and irresponsible "no new taxes" soundbites...
...think that having an unusual name perpetuates a tendency to make one a more outwardly unique person," Johnson says. "All the people who I know with names like that are unique...
While the city cannot legally restrict access to rent-controlled housing, Anthony said that landlords should make a good-faith effort to rent to people who cannot afford to pay market rents...