Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...itself and now thought that it knew what it wanted as a unit. Apparently M. Herriot had worked fast and got the Socialists back into line. It remained to be seen at what cost. Unfortunately it shortly became apparent that the cost meant inserting the "capital levy" in the bill under the guise of a "mortgage-secured tax." For 24 consecutive hours M. Painlevé occupied himself with redrafting his measure, largely to suit M. Blum. Said the harassed Premier, "I yield. But only to Le Cartel...
...Revised Bill, while embodying a multitude of changes in detail, differed from the original chiefly as follows: 1) The head tax was stricken off as "not worth bothering with." 2) Subject to individual modifications, the sums originally collectable over 14 years as taxes were now to be secured by a mortgage held by the Government on the property of the taxed individual or firm. This arrangement is, of course, the "capital levy" in all but name. 3) Instead of resorting to inflation in case of need, the Government would declare a moratorium on certain of its short term obligations, notably...
...expected that the Senate would kill the bill if it ever passed the Chamber. Le Temps called the present fiscal situation "a Tower of Babel...
...Joseph Caillaux, recently ousted French Finance Minister, fulminated against M. Painlevé's new bill; but caused some surprise by asserting that he would not lead the expected attack upon it in the Senate. Said he: "The Government's new capital levy scheme will work hardship to France for much longer than 14 years. Be warned! Enough illusions have been disseminated in this country already. . . . However, thanks to my methods as Finance Minister, the condition of the state debt and the Treasury is grave but not alarming...
...curtain-raiser the bill includes The Pilgrimage, a character study of small town life in France by Charles Vildrac. It was agreeable and excellently acted...