Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of French 10 will discuss today the Direct Tax question, which has just been agitated in Congress...
...There is, as a matter of fact, very little to criticize in the relations of the college and the city. The fact that Harvard has a large amount of real estate which pays no taxes is sometimes complained of by the over-careful tax-payer, who has a feeling that his own taxes are thus made higher. There is probably, however, not a city in New England whose people would not gladly give the land, with perpetual exemption from taxation, if Harvard University would transfer itself within their borders. Harvard certainly contributes vastly more to the city in merely material...
...after making a careful count of all the enumerated articles, finds that there are only 1,112. The idea that the present tariff is a war tariff is also false. We have always had a tariff of some kind ever since the foundation of the Republic. The real war tax is the internal revenue tax which was imposed solely to carry on the war. The tariff of 1883 has a free list of 380 articles, many of which have been added since the war, and a large number of duties have been materially lessened. England is constantly pointed...
...subsidize our shipping would be to tax the people to support an industry which our own laws render unsuccessful...
...India who only paid 12 cents a day for wages. He said further that if he could get his raw materials free, he could send his goods to India and drive the manufacturer there out of business by underselling him. Mr. Brooks once gave the facts of the tax on Chilian copper to some working men, and let them work out the results. They soon came to him and said that the tax had diminished our exports to Chili by four-fifths, and that a number of laborers, who had formerly made the exported articles, were thrown out of employment...