Word: tariffs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...WALCOTT and E. P. WILLIAMS.Best general references: Wells' Report on duties on Imported sugar; Congressional Record, Vol. 26, pp. 6829-32; Princeton Review, VI, 319, Nov. 1890; Tariff Reform, III, July 30, 1890; Editorials in New York Tribune, Aug. 12, 13, 1894; Boston Herald...
...more ethical advantage of an elevation of public methods and standards. He illustrated the first advantage by reference to the postal system. When we simply wish that letters should be delivered with speed and accuracy, it is obviously absurd to insist that a man should have certain views on tariff or finance. In the second place he pointed out that the offices, given out by political leaders to their henchmen, really formed a vast corruption fund, - that the offices were given to the most prominent henchmen, while the less prominent might receive a percentage of the salary...
...revival of business due to the passage of the Tariff Bill...
...Senate amendments improve the Tariff Bill...
...Income Tax is indefensible as a means of tax reform. - (a) Poor are not now immoderately taxed: Nation, LIV, 24 (Jan. 11, 1984). - (1) Tariff reductions are are on necessaries of life. - (2) Poorer classes pay but little State and Municipal taxes. - (b) An Income Tax is objectionable in administration: Mill's Political Economy, II, 426. - (1) Difficult to ascertain real incomes. - (2) Inquisitorial in nature. - (3) A tax on honesty. - (c) It is not approved by experience. - (1) Has serious inequalities: Gustav Cohn in Political Science Quarterly, IV, 56 March 1889); Consular Reports...