Tax-Cut Sentiment On Rise in Congress: Tax-Cut Sentiment On Rise in Congress
President Carter may find it more difficult than he expected to stave off an election year tax ciit as part of his latest anti-inflation strategy.</br></br>Before Carter proposed his new budget Jan. 28, Congress seemed generally agreed that despite the coming campaignÛÓand widespread predictions of a recessionÛÓcutting taxes now would do more harm than good.</br></br>Talks with both liberals and conservatives showed surprising unanimity: A broad-scale tax reduction might overstimulate the economy and could be taken by voters as a sign that Congress was abandoning the anti-inflation fight.</br></br>Û¢ Backers of a spate of narrower-focus tax-cut plansÛÓfrom faster depreciation writeoffs for business to a new $3 billion tax break for charitiesÛÓbegan pushing anew for their own tax-cut proposals.</br></br>Their efforts are likely to heighten pressure for a broad-scale tax-cut bill. In most cases, these nar-rowers bills wouldnÛªt stand much chance this year unless there is a larger tax bill to which they can be attached.