81. Republican congressional leaders called on President Bill Clinton to revise and re-submit his proposed tax package, saying the existing measure would actually raise rather than cut taxes. 82. Republicans were thrilled this week when Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia, a Democrat, sided with Phil Gramm of Texas to push for the Bush tax package. 83. Sen. Dan Coats plans to introduce a tax package to encourage donations to charities. 84. So the tax package could bring more of those homes onto the market. 85. Some independent budget analysts criticized both tax packages, asserting that the city should not reduce taxes when it faces large projected budget deficits in the coming years. 86. SPD Chairman Oskar Lafontaine will respond to the tax reform package on Friday. 87. Social conservatives like Gary L. Bauer, president of the Family Research Council, see the child tax credit as the most important item in the tax package. 88. Such a cut is not contained in either the pending Bush tax package or the alternative Democratic proposal. 89. Tax-cutting hawks remained unimpressed with the tax package emerging from Capitol Hill. 90. Temporarily overshadowing the constant preoccupation here with peace talks and national security issues, the tax package galvanized national attention last week. |