Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...income tax base must be broadened, because all the incomes of all 'the rich' will not suffice to pay our mounting deficit. Inevitably millions of our citizens must contribute, each in proportion to his ability to pay. Incidentally, when this happens, and citizens realize that there is no Santa Claus, the popularity of loose public spending will suffer a desirable setback...
...deficit was $409,000,000 smaller than in 1934 because revenues increased $697,000,000 and the New Deal had been unable to spend money as fast as it thought it could...
...grounds for wondering whether America eventually will have a group of 'Balkans' to the North. . . . Last year, collectively, our ten governments and nearly 4,000 municipalities collected approximately $690,000,000 in taxes. Did they spend it all? Did they! All of it, and a combined deficit of something like...
...Shops dressed their windows with pictures of correct attire for the occasion. Radio stations ballyhooed it. All this massed effort was to make a success of the Robin Hood Dell concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which last summer ceased abruptly two weeks ahead of time, leaving a $20,000 deficit...
That juncture has now virtually arrived, Mr. Takahashi asserted, recalling that for months Government issues have labored under the nicknames "deficit bonds" and "red ink bonds." As an example of how the Government could save money, Old Takahashi pleaded with the fighting services to respond to long standing Soviet proposals for a Russo-Japanese peace pact which would permit the two great powers to demobilize nearly 2,000,000 troops which they now maintain to defend their common frontier. As further proof that Japan's economy is being severely pinched, Fiscal Wizard Takahashi pointed to recent declines in Japanese...