Word: boost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordered written. Next the stiff excess profits tax proposed by the House was pared down. Personal income tax exemptions were cut from $2,500 to $2,000 for married people, from $1,000 to $800 for single persons. Surtaxes were increased from the bottom up. These new rates would boost the taxes of every married income taxpayer at least $20 a year, would make everyone with an income over $5,000 a year pay a surtax, would add $60 a year to the tax of a man earning $6,000, $160 a year to the tax of a man earning...
...sharp boost on income surtaxes above the $150,000 level, reaching a high of 75% on incomes over $10,000,000. (Present top surtax: 59% over $1,000,000.) Estimated yield...
...Committee became alarmed at reports that their bill was generally considered a dismal disappointment as a revenue-raiser. To stop this criticism they announced they would raise surtaxes not from the $150,000 but from the $50,000 level thereby pinch 7,000 instead of 1,000 taxpayers, thereby boost Federal revenue by an extra...
...Police Training School went back home they would be so firmly stamped with the U. S. seal of approval that local bosses would think twice before detouring these men for mere political reasons, and that the national weapon for fighting crime would thereby receive a healthy boost...
...held public hearings. Progressive Republican Assemblyman Melvyn Cronin demanded acceptance of the bill to stop the centralization of wealth, prevent the destruction of independents, save the State from wage slavery, keep open for posterity the road of opportunity. John Francis Neylan, Hearst lawyer, trumpeted the counterblast: confiscation, a 10% boost in food prices for those least able to pay, a tax on efficiency of distribution. "We have all lived long enough," cried eloquent Attorney Neylan, "to know that the men running these chain stores have not got horns. They are not people who chew up little babies." Governor Merriam...