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Sirs: You describe Congressman La Guardia as sincere and earnest and yet immediately follow by stating that his chief weakness is that he is responsible only to himself and his conscience. It would be interesting to know why you consider this as a weakness-except possibly in a political sense-in a legislator or anyone else. H. S. MORRISS...
...same page, in the next column, in a character sketch of Congressman La Guardia from TIME'S own pen, a sentence reads: "His chief weakness is that he has no responsibility except to himself and his own conscience...
There are two theories of Congressional behavior: 1) to subordinate individual judgment to the judgment of one's party's leadership; 2) to obey implicitly the dictates of one's constituency. Congressman La Guardia holds with neither of these theories. He lets his constituency follow him; he declines to follow his party leaders. Such behavior is usually ineffectual in positive legislative efforts and is thus a weakness. But in negative efforts, such as beating the Sales Tax, it often works well, is thus negative strength.-ED. California Minds Sirs...
...Into this line of argument the La Guardia-Doughton bloc tore as follows: The tax would be passed on by manufacturers to the poor man. It would become a tax on destitution and poverty. It was a consumption tax and would thus stifle economic recovery. Once incorporated in the Federal tax system, it could never be got out. Precisely because it was easy to collect, it would stimulate governmental extravagance, thwart economy. To match the Hearst Press's whoops for the Sales Tax, the Scripps-Howard chainpapers whooped loud against it in "defense" of housewives and wage-earners. The manufacturers...
Tariffs. With the Sales Tax out of the way, the La Guardia-Doughton coalition dissolved and the House, exhausted by long sessions, depleted by grip, began casting about for other means to raise a Budget-balancing half billion dollars. First moves were...