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Minnesota's beefy Harold Knutson then introduced the first bill: his pet project to cut 20% off taxes on personal incomes up to $302,000, and 10½% above that. In quick succession came revised versions of the Case bill to clip the powers of labor, and a measure by Michigan's anti-labor Clare Hoffman to throw out portal-to-portal pay suits (see BUSINESS), even those already pending...
Taxes. There was general approval of the 20% income tax cut first proposed by loud, bullet-headed Congressman Harold Knutson. It would be an across-the-board cut, which is contrary to New Deal theories of graduated ("soak the rich") taxation. But then there were few Republican recommendations which a New Dealer would cheer. Minnesota's Republican Congressman Walter H. Judd, no New Dealer, later denied the right of the conferees to commit the whole party to such action; his was a still, small voice. The Republican bosses claimed that the tax cut could be safely made...
There was Harold Knutson of Minnesota, due to be chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, which handles all tax and tariff legislation. Before Pearl Harbor, Knutson opposed nearly every defense measure, once proclaimed: "Hitler is displaying a forbearance that might be emulated by statesmen of other countries...
Taber and Knutson had been merely obstructionists when their party was in the minority. Would responsibility sober them up? These were things for Joe Martin to worry about. But Joe does not worry much. He knows how to handle his colleagues. He also knows that he will have some excellent committee chairmen (Jesse Wolcott of Michigan, Charles Eaton of New Jersey, et a/.) and that he will have some good new blood in the House. One of the freshmen, Connecticut's John Davis Lodge, put the problem of the Republicans...
Democratic Congressman Robert ("Muley") Doughton, who surrenders the chairmanship which Knutson assumes, drily observed: "The Republicans have promised more than they ever can accomplish. And now that they have the opportunity we will see just how they...