Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have made to Europeans are jeopardized by the political loans which remain like a hangover from the War. It seems to me that the people who want the Debts canceled are the same people who pay most of our taxes. Since canceling the Debts would increase our tax burden, why isn't it just that the chief taxpayers should decide our Debt action? Besides, these people-yes, our bankers and industrialists-are the ones who most clearly realize what is true-that debts paid now are paid in dollars of far greater purchasing power than the dollars that England...
...condemning the Wilson Administration for having given the Allied nations nearly all the money the American taxpayers owned and asking not even a definite promise to pay? Is he going to lift that burden his chieftain placed on American taxpayers? Is the new deal to be a dole . . . or some form of bureaucratic collectivism? . . . The Governor may be honestly trying to give us a new deal but he is dealing from the same old deck from which William Jennings Bryan gave the American people so many 'new deals'. . . . Beware, Governor! Mr. McAdoo, Mr. Hearst and Speaker Garner may have stacked...
Taking a long view, it seemed probable that Reparations and War Debts are already over the dam and that U. S. taxpayers will bear the ultimate burden, to be imposed by cancellation or default as the case may be. This should permit Germany to repay her private debts to foreigners (largely U. S. citizens) both as to principal and interest...
...anvil of public controversy President Hoover and Speaker Garner last week hammered out a red-hot campaign issue on Unemployment Relief. The issue: How far should the Federal Government go to take up the burden of private debt...
...Lords ¶Passed 22-to-8 (second reading) Danesfort's bill relieving pedestrians of their present burden of proving, before they can collect damages, negligence on the part of a driver who runs them down...