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Crotchety Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the prima donna-packed House Ways & Means Committee, felt the tax rub. His own soliloquy: "We are dealing with the most hateful, difficult problem that ever came along in the annals of mankind...
With committee tempers frayed, bluff Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton resorted to an old Washington device: he appointed a subcommittee to draft a compromise. What worried Muley Doughton most, however, was that U.S. citizens, looking toward pay-as-you-go as a sensible improvement in taxation methods, were not filing their 1943 returns with anything like the alacrity they showed last year. He warned taxpayers that the March 15 installment would be due this year, as in all previous years. Best estimate was that not until after the June 15 payment would tax collections be put on a current-income...
...Tried, in a letter to Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, to squelch a Congressional revolt against his $25,000 salary ceiling...
...Federal Reserve Bank, have come forward with any final plan of their own. It would seem as if their chief reason for opposing the Ruml plan is that someone else thought of it first. After Ruml's five hour session with the Ways and Means Committee last Friday, Representative Doughton, Chairman of the committee, told Ruml that Congress, not the pay-as-you-go pioneer, would write the bill. This typifies the Government's attitude...
Taxes. Well aware that they must pass the biggest tax bill in U.S. history, Congressmen pored over plans and statistics. Mused "Muley" Doughton: Congressmen were doing nothing else but answering letters on the Ruml pay-as-you-go plan. Said Massachusetts' Allen Towner Treadway: "Pay-as-you-go collection of income taxes is absolutely imperative...