Word: boatner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...just and easy way to raise the needed revenue. - (a) It is an equable tax: Boatner in Cong. Rec., XXI, 4515. - (1) It is the most evenly distributed. - (2) It reaches consumers in proportion to incomes. - (b) It furnishes one-fourth of the total revenue under the present tariff. - (c) It has always been deemed a proper revenue duty: Price in Cong. Rec., XXVI, 9954. - (d) It is an easy tax to collect: Perkins in Cong. Rec., XXVI...
...unadvisable to remove the sugar tax at the present time. - (a) Deficit must be met by heavier burdens in other directions: Boatner in Cong. Rec., XXI, 4515. - (1) Income tax would become firmly established. - (b) Other onerous taxes should be removed first: ibid. - (c) Sugar tax may render possible repeal of the income...
...This revenue is needed to carry on the government: - Boston Post passim, Pub. Opinion X, 197. - (b) Formerly the sugar duty was as light a burden upon the people as any other tariff tax: - Breckenridge as above. - (c) Other onerous taxes should have been abolished before this one: - Boatner in Cong...