Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resumed his chair, there was no roll call on H. J. Res. 133, only a rising vote. With his gavel handle the Speaker went through the motions of counting while a sharp-eyed clerk took the actual tally, whispered the result up to him for announcements: 282 to 17. Tax reduction had been approved by the House four days after its introduction-a new record...
Shamed by the House's despatch on tax reduction, the Senate began an attempt at imitation. Finance Committee approved H. J. Res. 133 quickly, unanimously. Out upon the Senate floor, however, it stirred old dissensions. Republican Leader Watson wanted to set aside the tariff bill for the tax bill. Others clamored for a completion of the tariff wool schedules first. Western Senators scowled at reduction of the corporation tax, beneficial chiefly to eastern industry. Senator Couzens of Michigan complained that the consumer, having already paid the 1929 tax to corporations, would not profit by that phase...
...year, exclusive of a postal deficit and additional outlay for the Federal Farm Board. Comparatively, this amount is $4,304,000 greater than current actual expenditures. Said President Hoover: "Our finances are in a sound condition." He envisaged surpluses of 225 million this year, 122 million next, reiterated his tax reduction recommendation...
...fiscal affairs-7? ($285,731,018, including tax refunds, veterans' insurance, administration of the District of Columbia...
This year budget punctuality is not imperative. France is vastly prosperous. Surplus tax collections have been piling up over estimates month after month. Therefore, argued many a Deputy last week, why not go back to the good old pre-Poincaré system? In those days the budget debate was a tournament of oratory lasting well into March, April or even...