Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...recently published report that "the popular detestation of this law precludes all possibility of enforcement." The citizens' Excise Commission through a sub-committee which comprised such men as Willis L. Ogden, Felix Adler and Dr. Lyman Abbott, adopted as its first and most important resolution "that the present liquor tax is unenforceable...
...apply this principle to taxation. In its light we see that we do not even approach justice in our methods of taxing. Even in local taxation, where we come nearest to justice, we tax only visible property. Our federal taxation is yet more unjust, for there we tax a man's needs, not his possessions. We have failed to secure an income tax. The nation has become unlimited where it deals with men, but limited where it deals with property. The government, in the hour of peril, may take men and stand them up against the enemies' guns...
Another fragment, number 2219, is a complaint from a weaver of Oxyrhynchus, to the strategos Tiberius Claudius Pasion, because Apoliophanes, a tax-collector, had extorted sixteen drachmae from...
...tax that would send even a quarter of our 1800 students to Washington, would run up into thousands of dollars...
...Senior Senate. Discussion of a Bill Aiming to Abolish the Present War Revenue Tax. Harvard...