Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signs of reversing its stand, and leading French statesmen are dwelling upon the advantages of the German offer. It has been stated in the New York Tribune that the Germans could do, for $550,000,000, work which is now costing the French government $750,000,000. Shifting the burden of restoration to German labor would cut from the French budget the immense sums now allotted to the devastated areas and forward deflation. It will indeed be unfortunate if France does not now accept the German offer since the political reason for refusal has been swept aside and as there...
...Class Day, or not included in the Album, he would feel that he had been done a great injustice. Perhaps a day will come when the long suffering Senior Committees will refuse to "baby" their fellow classmates with multiple remainders and will trust them to bear their light burden of responsibility alone. But so far there has been no committee which would risk the danger of an incomplete Album or an unsatisfactory Class Day in order to discipline the rest of the class. The least all Seniors can do in appreciation for the arduous work done by the Committee...
...over seventy percent of the total consumption expenditures of the United States was made up of the expenditures of families with incomes of less than eighteen hundred dollars a year. A large revenue realized through a tax mainly on necessities and a few luxuries would impose too great a burden upon the man of moderate means...
...debts," wrote Emerson, "men are least willing to pay the taxes." Government experts have for generations been trying to devise such a means of raising revenue that the burden will be divided justly among all classes and all individuals--and are continually failing. By levying upon corporations a flat tax of ten percent on profits--with certain exemptions--and applying a progressive tax rate up profit--with certain exemptions--and applying a progressive tax rate to profits which exceed a stipulated percentage of the capital investment the Government has attempted to levy a tax on surplus profits which would...
...stumbling-block to advancement: the attitude of mind which brings it about is unworthy of the twentieth century; above all, the indifference of the public, which allows such a condition of affairs to go uninvestigated, is growing to be a characteristic national fault. Let us not forget that the burden of seeing that full justice, neither more or less, is done even to the most abandoned of alien "reds" rests on the conscience of every citizen of this Republic...