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...losses in excess of his profits within the same year. Example : a speculator loses $90,000 on one stock and gains $10,000 on another. This year he could trim $80,000 loss from his tax return; next year he can trim only $10,000. If his profits are nil, his deductions are nil. The Treasury estimates $100,000,000 more revenue from this House hole-plugging...
...that simply as individual tutors those in Eliot are excellent; but so they were before the House was built. In the opinion of most of the other members of the House, apart from their strictly tutorial function, the value of most of the tutors to the house is almost nil...
...sketchy hints which were immediately reported as the Democratic Tax Plan. Chief features: Make the "entrenched rich" bear the load; hoist the surtaxes; repeal the section on capital gains & losses (under which many a citizen was hoping, with mostly losses to report, to cut his 1931 tax to practically nil). Quickly the Treasury (Undersecretary Mills speaking) Hayed the Democrats for planning to "soak the rich." With equal promptitude, stocky, ruddy little Speaker Garner of the House-to whom William Randolph Hearst referred last fortnight (and again last week over the radio; as the Hope of the Democratic Party-retorted: "Ogden...
...financing last week was nil compared with $63,590,000 the week before and $10,655,000 in the last week...