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...chance of passage? Said Ways & Means Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton last week: "Sentiment is ... overwhelmingly against it." In 1932, recalled ancient (87) Representative Doughton, Ways & Means had reported out a sales tax bill which was defeated.* In depression 1932, it should have been; then all efforts were to stimulate spending, not to cut it. But now times are different. Some Congressmen who now oppose a sales tax may quickly change their position if the budget hits $80 billion. Then, a sales tax will probably be the only way to balance the budget...
...public, some Congressmen warned that taxes heavy enough to cover the full cost of security would strangle the country's economy. Cried New York's Daniel Reed: "I think the President has gone hysterical." Some recalled the observation of North Carolina's Congressman "Muley" Doughton, when President Roosevelt in 1943 proposed a $10.5 billion increase in wartime taxes: "You can shear a sheep once a year; you can skin him only once...
...flat across-the-board profits levies. On the committee itself, New York's Republican Representative Daniel A. Reed tried to offer a plan to permit corporations to choose between a flat 55% corporate income tax or Snyder's 75% excess profits levy. But Chairman Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, 87-year-old North Carolina Democrat, refused to listen to any alternatives, insisted that Congress had given him a "mandate" to report out only an excess profits tax in time for the lame duck session...
...Only four Representatives, all Democrats, have been in Congress longer: Illinois' Sabath, since 1907; North Carolina's Doughton, since 1911; Texas' Rayburn, since 1913; Georgia's Vinson, since...
...President said that he still wanted a $4 billion tax increase. Next day, the House Ways and Means Committee, which originates all tax bills, promptly put the measure on ice. North Carolina's conservative, old (85) Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, the committee chairman, wanted to wait & see if a slump really was developing...