Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carefully timing his remarks so that none of his important disclosures would be made before Europe's stock exchanges were closed for the day, Sir John announced a budget 40% higher than last year's record-breaker, said that the 45,000,000 citizens of the United Kingdom would spend $6,610,000,000 on their Government between April 1, 1939 and April 1, 1940.* Moreover, he warned, the Government might very well find it necessary to up expenditures from time to time as the situation warranted...
...whole of our contemporary public finance is governed and conditioned by our defense spending," explained Sir John. It is this cruel necessity which transforms our budget and increases our borrowing, and makes it necessary to shoulder grievous burdens and face unprecedented totals, without the pressure of which taxpayers might rejoice over a lightening load." Proof of Sir John's words was found in the fact that nearly half ($3,150,000.000) of the great outlay was to go into Britain's rapidly expanding defenses...
...John's latest budget was orthodox if heavy. Only $1,900,000,000 of the amount will be borrowed, the rest will be raised by bigger taxes. Britons will have to pay no new taxes, just more of the same stiff taxes they have had since the World...
...knew that the reasons why Britons were going to have to dig down deeper into their pockets this year than last were to be found in Adolf Hitler's moves on the Continent. Best expression of the British man-in-the-street's reaction to the Hitler budget appeared on a newspaper handbill: "We Can Take...
...Protestant history, and to deal with the many and various problems of overlapping administration. The three merging churches have between them 65 bishops, some 25,000 ministers, about 43,000 churches, 2,900 schools and colleges, many a hospital and social-service agency, several rich publishing houses, a combined budget of $80,000,000 a year, a total investment in the U. S. of well over a billion dollars...