Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelve " greatest" women chosen by the League of Women Voters have, of course, aroused rabid discussion. The burden of many criticisms is: " We never heard of some of them! " Some of the less known...
...with prominent men in Germany, he invariably made a point of asking the question: "Is Germany willing to pay her indemnity?" The answers he received were always the same. The German wants to pay, and he wants to pay as soon as possible in order to get the burden off his shoulders. But the terms of the treaty must be definite, must be plausible, and above all must not be enforced at the point of a pistol...
...tendency to become unproductive of revenue, is not confined to the very highest surtax rates. The tendency is characteristic of all the surtax classes where the rate is high enough to induce evasion of the burden by investment in tax-exempt securities and availing of other methods of avoiding payment of the higher rates. The following table, which, while not official, is compiled from the official Statistics of Income published by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, shows clearly the dwindling of taxable incomes of $100,000 a year or more, and the tax derived from them. *Percent *Percent *Percent...
...complete solution. Only reduction by Act of Congress of the surtax rates to a level at which the inducement to invest in tax-exempt securities becomes negligible will destroy immediately and completely the tax-exempt evil, and reduction is logically the net step in the lightening of the tax burden imposed upon the country...
...addition the gross debt has been reduced. By June 30 it is expected to be $22,400,000,000-or $1,600,000,000 less than it was 26 months earlier. Slowly but surely we are shedding the burden...