Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Dec. 24). With this setback his job grows harder for he has promised to exempt food from the State's 3% sales tax. That will knock $10,000,000 off the State's revenue and $12,000,000 is what the State has been spending for relief...
...referendum on State Repeal, promising tax exemption on homesteads up to $3,500 value, promising to make the state toll bridges free, promising to reduce the cost of automobile licenses, promising $3,500,000 to keep the schools open, promising that the State would bear its share of relief ($24,000,000 a year), and promising not to impose a sales tax to pay for all he promised...
...Relief. When the sub-committee on relief reported its plank, it was evident how far the 90 tycoons had traveled. Three years ago it would have been hard to find one of them who would not have been ready to denounce the pauperizing effect of the dole.* Yet last week. knowing the dole to be far cheaper than made work, their sub-committee plumped solidly for the dole. But such straightforward language would never do. President Roosevelt feels now about the dole as the tycoons felt three years ago, favors work relief as a means of preserving morale among...
Government Competition. Aside from slum clearance, the Government should not start housing schemes in competition with private capital. Already competing in 200 kinds of business, it should cease such activities to provide work relief. "Our government was neither conceived nor fashioned to engage in competition with its citizens...
...Said Relief Administrator Hopkins: "Don't make me cry: it's Christmas time. Some people spending two or three days thinking how relief should be handled and deciding in the sacred precincts of White Sulphur Springs on sending a few baskets of groceries to the unemployed, are not of much importance...