Word: budgeted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wait for printed copies. Two days later Senator Smoot presented his committee's report (again apologizing for the delay in supplying members with printed copies). Two days after that he formally opened debate with a painstaking, unexciting speech about his billion-dollar tax bill, supposed to balance the Budget and preserve Public Credit...
Senator Borah plunged into the tax debate as follows: "Balancing the budget has been made a slogan. But we delude ourselves if we think we're going to balance the budget by simply passing this tax bill. We must take up the question of stabilizing prices. The gold dollar is no longer an honest dollar. How many suicides must we register, how many insane must we put into asylums, how many farms must go under the hammer before we do something to stabilize our currency...
Voters who believed the platform promises of Eamon de Valera to reduce taxation could barely believe their eyes when they read the Budget Bill presented to the Dail in Dublin last week by embarrassed Finance Minister Sean MacEntee...
...This is a poor man's budget!" declared the Finance Minister. Charging the previous Cosgrave Government with "faulty bookkeeping," he declared that the de Valera Government had found themselves faced with a "paper deficit" of ?630,000, which knocked President de Valera's plans for tax reduction to smithereens. Interrupted former Finance Minister Ernest Blythe: "Instead of a 'paper deficit' of ?630,000 we left you a surplus...
Good or bad, the MacEntee budget pleased the Laborites whose support keeps President de Valera in power. The President stuck last week to the job of keeping his other great campaign promise- his promise to abolish the Oath of Fealty to the King (TIME, Feb. 29, et seq.}. In Dublin the bill abolishing the Oath was before the Irish Senate having passed the Dail. Suddenly in London the beans were spilled by that pudgy-fingered, perennial bungler the Rt. Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions...