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...justification for it can be found unless as an integral part of such regulation. The action cannot be wrested out of its setting, denominated an excise for raising revenue and legalized by ignoring its purpose as a mere instrumentality for bringing about a desired end." In short, there are bona fide taxes and pseudo taxes. Bona fide taxes, imposed to raise money, are constitutional under Congress' power to raise revenue. Pseudo taxes, imposed for purposes of regulation rather than for the purpose of raising money, are constitutional or unconstitutional depending on whether Congress, through its other powers, is entitled...
...Oxford, the colleges let themselves out as headquarters for conferences and congresses. Verse speaking associations, brewers leagues, teachers unions,--anything but nudists, live in the hallowed quads of learning and probably behave far more decorously than the bona fide students of term time...
...Please!" Just where, Alberta wondered, was resourceful William Aberhart going to get the $25 he has promised to pay each bona fide citizen of Alberta every month after setting up the system known as Social Credit? Adolf Hitler's first moves when he reached power were adroitly Conservative, and so last week were William Aberhart's. The new Premier began by deprecating the hostility to King George of the previous Cabinet and Legislature which voted that His Majesty was not to appoint another Lieutenant Governor to Alberta. Mr. Aberhart will be glad to advise the King to send...
...breezy, two-fisted, hospitable citizens have been feeling poorer & poorer. Galavanting to the polls last week, they raised merry Empire hell by turning over their province to a Bible-babbling high-school principal who promises to crack open Alberta's frozen wealth and pay dividend" of every at bona least fide $25. citizen a "monthly dividend" of at least...
Hoboes and roustabouts, who might think they can get $25 in hard cash dividends per month by trekking into Alberta, were served notice that the dividend will only be paid to bona fide adult Albertans of some years standing, and then not in cash but in credit. Unemployed Albertans who refuse to work will receive no dividends...