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...rising cost of government last week moved Senator William Edgar Borah to declare: "The ever-growing burden of taxation is one of the great factors in bringing about our present Depression. . . . The most wasteful and extravagant part of the Government is this bureaucracy, nation wide, which we are building up. ... In the last two years we have established 26 Government commissions with their thousands of employes...
...many a notable career of public service began thus. Examples: The late William Howard Taft, Elder Statesman Elihu Root, Senator William Edgar Borah, Senator George William Norris...
...Idaho's Senator Borah purposes shipping it to the hungry Chinese (who do not know how to eat wheat) . . ." records TIME, April 6, p. 14, but says the China Year Book...
Insurgent Senator Norris soon and openly declared himself for raising the Federal inheritance tax. Senator Borah advocated increasing the income surtax.* But neither expected Congress to have the "courage" to meet the tax problem before the 1932 elections...
...Last week Senator Borah for the first time accepted his salary at the regular $10,000-per-year rate. When in 1925 Congress raised its members' pay from $7,500 to $10,000, Senator Borah refused to take the increase on the ground that he had been elected to a $7,500 job. His re-election last November, he felt, entitled him to take pay at the new rate. Senators pay no income tax on their salaries...