41.   Expect the proposed Republican tax cuts to be reduced, particularly a recommended reduction in the capital gains tax rate, lobbyists say.

42.   Failure to convince the Legislature to enact his proposed tax cuts, for example, could hurt him in a national race.

43.   Fanjul was urging the president, unsuccessfully, to oppose a proposed tax on sugar farmers to pay for a cleanup of the Everglades National Park.

44.   Flanked by supporters from a rare and new coalition of business and environmental leaders, Gov. Whitman divided her proposed tax increase to win the support of each group.

45.   For instance, the president is likely to get enough of his proposed tax cut to claim a moral victory.

46.   Fleischer said, though, that Bush remains determined to press forward with his proposed tax cut.

47.   Free Democrats angrily assailed the proposed tax increase, while Waigel insisted that the government start taxing some pension benefits.

48.   Gephardt said Democrats have proposed tax reductions, but not across the board.

49.   Gerald and Bobbie Young already are braced for one of three surprises that tax advisers see lurking in proposed tax cuts that President Bush and Congress are pondering.