taxing

The control board had basically full power over taxing and spending in D.C.

The council could maybe pass a law, but the control board could just overturn it and do their own thing on taxing and spending.

There is a chance that a significant number of Americans will conclude that it is probably easier and less psychologically taxing to just accept that they live in what is effectively a light autocracy than to continue trying to convince their fellow Americans to fight for a democracy that they clearly don’t value or appreciate as such, and whose principles and architecture are much less important to them than many of us had hoped.

Trump and Harris have aggressively courted the state’s voters, notably by proposing not taxing tips, a priority for service industry workers.

Many migrants without legal status do jobs that are physically taxing.