Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coaches don't take off until they get a full load, even if they have to wait, he said. The company that you book with will not be the one which takes you to your destination. It probably doesn't own any planes, but only books passengers for independent companies...
Already harassed alumni cannot provide this. University officials hence have decided to economize where it will hurt least--in room maintenance. This would make the replaced maids' wages available to students willing to spend two hours in cleaning House suites. The plan serves the double purpose of alleviating the load on the scholarship found, and at the same time makes available a job for the student unable to earn a scholarship...
...those on liquor, gasoline and tobacco, and substitution of a flat sales tax on everything except food, rent and medicines. Spokesman for the committee was old New Dealer Leon Henderson onetime head of OPA. A sales tax, he argued, would produce revenue quickly, discourage spending, spread the increased tax load to all income brackets, and be easier to collect than income...
...under the excise tax system, said Henderson, only $40 billion, or 22.7% of a total $179 billion in consumer spending, was taxed. His contention: some things were being taxed too heavily, others that should have been sharing the load were not being taxed at all. Henderson figured that at least $89 billion of untaxed expenditures (excluding such essentials as food and rent) should be taxed. Including the goods that are already subject to excise taxes-and projecting the figures to 1952 levels-that would broaden the tax base from $40 billion to $130 billion. A 5% tax on this broad...
What's Bad? To the anti-sales taxers, some of the arguments that Henderson advanced are just the reasons why the U.S. should have no national sales tax. The fact that it spreads the tax load is one of its weaknesses. Instead of taxing on the basis of ability to pay-the traditional test of a good tax-a sales tax hits those hardest who can least afford to pay. Example: a $3,000-a-year family spends the major part of its income (mostly on necessities), thus the tax hits most of its income. A high-income family...