Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During the special session Congress started to revise a tax bitterly attacked by business since its enactment in 1936-the (1 surtax on large incomes, 2 nuisance tax, 3 Federal sales tax, 4 inheritance tax, 5 tax on undistributed profits...
...filibuster in the Senate throughout the first week of the special session was staged to prevent passage of the (1 wages and hours, 2 housing, 3 farm, 4 antilynching, 5 tax-revision) bill...
...Railroads' demands that the Interstate Commerce Commission permit them to raise freight rates are based largely on the contention that an additional burden of $35,-000,000 a year was added to their operation expense this fall by (1 the corporate surplus tax, 2 wage increases, 3 increased steel costs, 4 safety measures to comply with State and Federal regulations, 5 grade crossing projects...
...legislator who would initiate a levy of ten percent of the current tax rate, stated that he had heard no report from the committee which held a hearing at the State House yesterday, but said that when it is brought up before the legislature he is "going to make a hell of a fight from the floor...
Asked whether the bill had been introduced on the suggestion of the city of Cambridge the tax sponsor replied, "No, I introduced the bill on my own." Foley denied that the excise was aimed to wipe out a deficit in the city treasury...