Word: burden
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...opening the debate for the affirmative S. Feingold '07 explained that the revenue in France was derived from two sources,--direct and indirect taxes. The indirect taxes act as a burden upon the poor. A. Prussian '08, the second speaker for the affirmative, pointed out that direct taxes were not only unjust to the individual but were unsatisfactory to the government, because they are insufficient for the regular administration and inflexible in a government emergency. The revenue must then be increased, and the way to increase it is by an income tax. B. S. Pouzzner '09, the last speaker...
...raising taxes for the investment, rents would rise. The whole burden of the rise in taxes will fall not on the tenants but on the land-owners. This would not in any way alter the above difficulty with distribution...
...comes partly from the University, but chiefly from the public. At present season tickets are required for each sport and special tickets for big games, and in addition there are numerous calls for subscriptions, with consequent annoyance. There is a strong undergraduate feeling that subscriptions should be abolished. The burden of athletic support is not borne equally at present; a few pay for more than their share. With separate tickets for each sport, the one or two more fortunate ones draw the whole student body to their games; all the rest draw from a few hundred down to a handful...
...cost of seeing the intercollegiate games played in Cambridge is at present an excessive burden on undergraduates. Four or five years ago, an H. A. A. ticket at $5 admitted to practically everything but the Yale football game: then the Yale baseball game was made an additional charge at a high price; then the minor teams were thrown on their own resources and began to charge where most of them had not before, then the H. A. A. ticket was abolished entirely and all sports charged separately at a much greater aggregate cost. Subscriptions have continued as an additional...
...responsibility for economy and for the assignment of aid to the teams where it belongs, with the graduate manager and Athletic Committee; (2) it would avoid discrimination in favor of the sports that happen to draw large crowds; (3) the cost of tickets would be reduced, and the unequal burden of subscriptions would be taken off managers, who now have to devote a lot of valuable time to them, and off subscribers, who give grudgingly perhaps, or beyond their means because asked by a personal friend; (4) more men would see the games, and would be drawn into participating, especially...