It possesses striking similarities to the political conditions that led to the Tax Revolt.

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California's Proposition 13, for example, a 1978 initiative lowering local property taxes, set off a tax revolt across America.

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The Tax Revolt went, as we would now say, viral.

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And muddying the whole picture is the tea-party movement, a tax revolt whose activists (some clever, some dotty, all angry) seem to loathe Bush-era free-spending Republicans as much as they hate Democrats.

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Some 60% questioned his tax revolt.

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Although government revenues are rising strongly, Ms Rousseff has spoken of funding better health care by bringing back a tax on financial transactions, which was not renewed after a rare tax-revolt in Congress in 2007.

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It was the Liberal leader, of course, who first called for a peoples' revolt against the carbon tax.

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In his most spectacular revolt, Ishihara decided to tax banks on their gross profit rather than current profit.

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That got business lobbies in revolt, so legislators are hustling to repeal the tax before it kicks in in December--a task made more difficult by their traditional two-week November break for deer hunting.

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