Word: dissentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only qualified dissent we heard was that of an Internal Revenue Bureau official in Washington. "Your cover picture showed the taxpayer going into the wringer feet first," he complained. "We always put them in head first...
...contribute a fair proportion of their wealth to the national Government." This act was never enforced, but in 1862 Congress passed a 3% levy, plus a 5% tax on incomes over $10,000, thus introducing the now famed principle of taxation according to ability to pay. There was little dissent. In 1864, more gradations were introduced. Was Representative Justin S. Morrill (R., Vt.) the voice of reaction or of conscience or of ironic prophecy when he opposed the bill? He said: "This provision goes upon the principle of taxing a man because he is richer than another. The very theory...
...fear have been or will be declared subversive, nor will they dare make statements that wander too far from the orthodoxy of the times. Even if the threat of expulsion is not very great, there is always the possibility of a hearing which is almost as unpleasant. Justice Douglas' dissent, which predicted a vertitable spy system growing up in the New York school system, is not so alarmist as it might appear at first reading, for if current affairs serve to magnify the public's present Red hysteria, accusations can be expected to increase by geometric progression...
Despite all the objections and predictions, the fact remains that the Feinberg Law is now effective. However, Justice Frankfurter's dissent, which is primarily concerned with legalistic arguments over procedure, suggests the possibility of another test case. The Feinberg Law is more complicated than a discussion of doctrines would indicate, and since it has yet to be invoked, its operation could very well produce another Supreme Court decision...
Howe said "the opinion for the majority made by Justice Minton is inadequate for its failure to answer the jurisdictional points made by Justice Frankfurter in dissent." All three men praised the dissents of Justices Douglas and Black, who attacked the law as restricting freedom of speech. Howe, however, felt that Frankfurter's was the strongest from a legal viewpoint...