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...well-nigh universal." Recognizing this spirit, Chairman Robert L. Doughton's Ways & Means Committee proposed to give about 8,336,000 more U. S. citizens the opportunity of filing a Federal income tax return, to give some 2,000,000 of them an opportunity actually to pay. "Muley" Doughton & colleagues proposed to lower the minimum taxable income from $1,000 to $800, reducing the exemption for married citizens from $2,500 to $2.000. Effect of these and other changes in the Rearmament revenue measure which Chairman Doughton introduced last fortnight was to up its prospective annual yield...
Congressman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of North Carolina last week had lived to see a historic phenomenon in Washington. Up before Congress, in election year, was a hefty Federal tax bill. The proposed taxes-an estimated $656,000,000 worth-were for National Defense. The press applauded, cried in effect: "Tax us more!" Congressmen bickered only over details, did not question the need for new taxes. Said Muley Doughton, explaining this miracle: "Everybody is so patriotic...
What made the taxes historic on a second count was that they represented the first real effort by the Roosevelt Administration to arrange the payment of a debt before the money was borrowed. Muley Doughton (as chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee) and Mississippi's Pat Harrison (Senate Finance Committee) sold lukewarm Franklin Roosevelt on this departure from New Deal practice, then wrote the President's ideas into "a bill to provide for the expenses of national preparedness. . . ." Sure to pass, the bill was no less sure to be a mere drop in the enormous bucket...
Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau explained to Muley Doughton's committee why the new taxes are necessary. Even before the President upped his emergency Defense estimates by $1,000,000,000 plus (see p. 77), the expected deficit for fiscal 1941 stood at $3,703,000,000. This prospect in itself was nothing new. But, said Mr. Morgenthau, the U. S. Treasury as of last week could borrow only $1,973,000,000 more without cracking the $45,000,000,000 debt limit. In consequence the Secretary, Muley Doughton and Pat Harrison asked Congress to up the limit...
This week was a proud one for old Blanford Dougherty. One day Congressman Robert ("Old Muley") Doughton and many another bigwig arrived at Boone to help him dedicate a new $150,000 science building. They praised a still greater Dougherty achievement: a system of State support for its public schools that is the envy of every other State in the Union (except tiny Delaware, which has a similar system...