Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than have attacked any other commentator. He has beaten all of them, including America First, which had his sponsor (Purol) on the ropes with their anti-interventionist mail. He has insisted on saying what he wanted to, and his audience (about 10,000,000) has forgiven his mistakes and gone on listening. His long-range batting average is pretty good...
...made of the fact that the Ruml plan "forgives" the rich (as well as the poor) a year's income taxes, the fact remains that taxes on all incomes over $25,000 a year comprise only a fraction of the estimated $9,275,000,000 to be forgiven. And because the war has increased most U.S. incomes, the Senate bill will net the Treasury this year an estimated $2,000,000,000 more revenue than it would receive under the old system of collecting this year's taxes on last year's incomes...
...Kingdom" won our hearts on behalf of Chinese missionaries, and there is absolutely no reason for disliking their daughters. But the story doesn't begin to perk up until Barry Fitzgerald arrives on the scene, and Deanna's white lies (for the benefit of the orphans of course) are forgiven and forgotten. Her voice is as good as always and in other ways she's better than ever...
...groups, supported by men and women in all walks of life, and perhaps the subject of more honest letters than Congress has received in many months, the Carlson version of the Ruml Plan lost in the House Tuesday as a result of Administration protests that large taxpayers would be "forgiven" their taxes...
...cash receipts of the Treasury could be maintained even though the [1942] tax liability was forgiven." (Point Three of the Ruml plan: the only sensible way to start a pay-as-you-go system is to "turn the tax clock ahead" by 1) forgetting about taxes on 1942 income, 2) letting all payments made this year apply to 1943 income...