Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of a barrage of questions from the floor touching on subjects which ranged from the naval armament program to a Mississippi sales tax, Governor Earle last night consistently declined to comment on matters on which he did not feel sufficiently well-informed...
...general sales tax, such as recently proposed for Massachusetts, the governor described as "one of the most subtly vicious taxes ever devised," since it cuts into the poor man's dollar far more than the rich...
Rich Man Avoids Tax...
...average American, with an income ranging from $400 to $2500 a year, must necessarily subject almost all his expenditures to the sales tax through local expenditures, he explained. The rich man avoids the tax by outside purchases. He pays no tax on money spent for rent or travel, or on such portion of his income which he does not spend...
Leaving it to Congress to argue the repeal of the undistributed profits tax, a balanced budget, the broadening of the income tax base, citizens should consider the conference's recommendation for a permanent organization of little business to deal with the government and should compare the desires of big and little business. Unfortunately the President refused to give official sanction to a group, representative of half the nation's business, anxious to cooperate with Washington. In addition, circumstances of the conference made it impossible to form any organization. But immediate failure should not discourage leaders of little business from trying...