Word: widener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's true, the flat tax would collect less money than the current system, at least in the short term. Robert Hall, a conservative Stanford University economist, who with his colleague Alvin Rabushka literally wrote the book on the subject (The Flat Tax, 1985), estimates that Forbes' scheme would widen the federal deficit by $182 billion a year--just when a majority of voters in both parties say they want a balanced budget before new tax cuts. Forbes, a believer in the quasi-theology called supply-side economics, assumes that tax cuts, even when financed by federal borrowing, will generate...
...Democratic nomination in 1992 and was savaged by candidate Bill Clinton for proposing to cut taxes for the rich and raise them for the middle class. Those same arguments, plus the fact that a 17% rate system would raise less revenue than the current tax system and thus widen the budget deficit, will make the Forbes plan increasingly controversial...
Gerometta and fellow freshman Catherine Kreindler also scored in the opening stanza to widen the Crimson's advantage...
...celebrated House firebrand. To place limits on the work of the special counsel, he declared, would be seen as "an attempt by the ethics committee to control the scope and direction of the investigation.'' Who said that? Gingrich did, seven years ago, when he was pushing to widen the investigation of Jim Wright...
...another part of the world, it would have been a straightforward public-works project. A highway was too narrow to handle the increasing flow of traffic, so the authorities brought in heavy equipment to widen it. Partway through the job, however, a road-leveling tractor uncovered the opening to a cave no one knew was there. Work came to an immediate halt, and within hours a scientific swat team descended on the site to study...