Word: payless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moribund Measures. Congress did manage to shove through at the last minute a stopgap financing bill to forestall payless paydays for the District of Columbia government and five other agencies that were technically without funds because their appropriations had not been approved. In addition, the Senate Finance Committee cleared a bill to raise social security payments 15% across the board, bringing a little closer to action the benefit increases that the President pledged a year...
...damaged his local reputation. State revenues had simply dried up during the 1957-58 recession, and when Williams presented a reasonable tax program, the legislature, eager to increase the sales tax, refused to budge. So did Williams. As a result, the state could not meet its payrolls and phrase "payless paydays" became permanently attached to the Governor. The Detroit newspapers, the Luce magazines, etc., did a brutal hatchet job on Williams from which he has never recovered...
...million), and "getting it by twisting the arms of Republican legislators." Romney, he raged, had "kicked farmers in the teeth," "thrown small business into a tailspin," and had taken credit for measures passed by the legislature. "I am tired of the front office taking credit for going from payless paydays to a $60 million surplus. The payless payday, as everybody knows, was a hoax. And the surplus is due to legislation passed in 1962 by a previous Republican legislature and by an expanding Michigan economy." Said Romney when he heard of the diatribe: "This is not the sort of thing...