Word: pay-as-you-go
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...Passed a $2.3 billion pay-as-you-go tax plan (the President had asked for $10.5 billion...
Beardsley ("Pay-as-you-go") Ruml, visiting his doctor-father in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had a pleasant thought (for a local reporter): the American postwar standard of living can be 50% higher than anything the U.S. has ever known-if the right conditions prevail. The "right conditions": a national income of $140 billions, based upon 55 million people working 40-hour weeks...
...Both Jack and Jacques are confident of victory, think Germany is the No. 1 enemy. But both have difficulty finishing the sentence: "Canada is fighting this war because . . ." Jack favors compulsory savings to put the war on a pay-as-you-go basis, but Jacques, being a voluble foe of anything remotely like compulsion, does not. Isolationist Jacques, unlike Jack, thinks Canada's armed forces should be kept at home, for defense...
Fiscal Policy. In Manhattan, before the Steel Founders Society of America, Beardsley (pay-as-you-go) Ruml, R. H. Macy treasurer and New York Federal Reserve Bank chairman, discussed U.S. fiscal policy. Said he: fiscal policy is the one important area of Government activity about which business-and the U.S. as a whole-can logically be "apprehensive...
Most startling revelation was that im roved tax collections under pay-as-you-go would bring in an unlooked-for $5,067 million. But Franklin Roosevelt, noting that the Government is now paying only slightly more than a third of its current expenses out of current revenue, again called for "truly stiff" taxes or savings, or both...