Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garner declared: "I can promise now that I can present a plan which will raise $500,000,000 new taxes with little complaint about it, and also relieve the people of $270,000,000 tax burdens. I would shift $500,000,000 from the shoulders of those least able to bear it and place it where the burden could be better sustained. ... In any bill I write, the principles will be economically sound. I will never do anything to impair the right of property. I am a property owner myself and I believe in respecting that right...
...manufacturer contributed these phrases: "We have a tremendous reservoir of labor in this country. We used to say, 'Let George do it.' Now we say, 'Let Giovanni do it.' We can do it ourselves. Those who demand an unlimited labor supply have upon them the burden of proof not only that they need labor but that they need to get it outside the country." ¶ A member of the Liberal Immigration League declared that we need illiterates "to fill the places of Irish track walkers we have now raised to Congress...
...unqualified approval. I specially commend a decrease on earned incomes and further abolition of admission, message and nuisance taxes. . . . Being opposed to war taxes in time of peace, I am not in favor of excess profits taxes. . . . For seven years the people have borne with uncomplaining courage the tremendous burden of national and local taxation. . . . Of all services which the Congress can render to the country, I have no hesitation in declaring this one to be paramount...
...Exempt Securities?"Another reform which is urgent in our fiscal system is the abolition of the right to issue tax-exempt securities. The existing system not only permits a large amount of the wealth of the nation to escape its just burden, but acts as a continual stimulant to municipal extravagance...
...doors of a bookshop take on an entirely new aspect to him who turns to go. He is assailed with an entirely unforeseen sense of obligation. The jaws of the trap close suddenly. The very unconcern of the salesmen, their perfect willingness to let him be, becomes a burden. He feels something like a moral obligation to buy. It seems the only fitting return for the hospitality of his welcome, for the reassuring absence of the officious floorwalker...