Word: couzenses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As a group of lawmakers, these six Democrats and four Republicans were of mixed financial breeding: Senator David Reed from steelmaking Pittsburgh, Senator James Couzens from motor-making Michigan, Representative Allen Treadway from the bucolic Berkshires of Massachusetts, Representative Isaac Bacharach from sporty Atlantic City, Representative Sam Hill from the...
Big difference to the taxpayer, however, is that the Senate bill has an amendment sponsored by Senator Couzens which will make every one pay a flat 10% extra on his total income tax for next year. That would cost taxpayers $55,000,000 in 1935. Including Mr. Couzens' 10...
AUSTIN GOLDSBOROUGH PATTERSON BARBOUR HALE REED BORAH HASTINGS ROBINSON CAPPER HATFTELD (Ind.) CAREY JOHNSON SCHALL COUZENS KEAN STEIWER CUTTING KEYES TOWNSEND DAVIS LA FOLLETTE VANDENBERG DICKINSON McNARY WALCOTT FESS NORBECK WHITE FRAZIER NORRIS GIBSON NYE
For years the responsible job of seeing tax bills through, the Senate rested on the patient, sloping shoulders of prosy Reed Smoot, who stood on the floor swinging columns of statistics, ponderously trying to hit the gadflies of the opposition, one of whom, with the most biting sting of all...
In adopting a ten per cent rise in income taxes by recently reversing its action on the Couzens Amendment, the Senate has done something which will give many thousands of thinking people grounds for apprehension. An added fifty-five million dollar burden of discouragement saddled to the backs of the...