Word: district
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year the House, through an advisory committee which included ten D. C. citizens and officials, overhauled the District's tax structure with the object of making the District selfsupporting. Last week when the new D. C. tax bill appeared before the House, it was found to contain...
...income tax, personal and corporate, brand-new for the voteless District of Columbia. The personal tax ran from 2% on $1,000 of taxable income to 7% on upwards...
...partly because 36 of the 48 States now have such taxes either personal, corporate or both, partly because it appeared, in the light of this year's Supreme Court decisions, that Federal employes would share such a tax-and U. S. workers constitute about one-fifth of the District's population...
...voteless tax payers was the very first amendment made in the bill last week by the House. Offered by Missouri's Cochran, boldly supported by Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, overwhelmingly-and anonymously-voted by all present, the amendment specifically exempted all members and employes of Congress from "be District income...
...When the District's voteless citizen-advisers beheld the House's handiwork, they sped to the Senate hot with anger. Virginia's Carter Glass promptly announced himself as a champion for scores of thousands of Federal workers not so fortunate as to work for Congress. What the House had done for itself, the Senate could undo. Pending redress, Columnist Raymond Clapper (Scripps-Howard) spoke for other nonimmune D. C. residents in words of measured scorn...