Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt estimated receipts at $6,320,000,000, expenditures at $7,408,000,000. Result: a 1938 net deficit of $1,088,000,000. The change in the past year from an estimated balance to a billion-dollar deficit was caused largely by an overestimate of income tax revenues, an underestimate of the possibilities of Recession...
...Governor White last week to do something that to other Depression-ridden Governors sounded like pure quixotry. Thanks to plentiful Federal grants for public works and a 2% sales tax inherited from his budget-balancing predecessor, Sennett ("Mike") Conners, Governor White boasts a $5,000.000 surplus in his State treasury. All homesteads valued at less than $2,500 are currently exempt from State taxes. In his opening message to the legislature last week, Governor White expressed the pious hope that all homesteads be exempted, not only from the four-mill State tax but from the 15 to 7O-mill taxes...
...general manifesto, he announced: "I have lived in exile in 15 European countries in flight from the U. S. income-tax collectors. If Andorra refuses me, the only other European country I may visit is Liechtenstein. . . . I'm a real gangster, it's true, but I'm no criminal, and I want to remain what I have always been -honest. Europeans make a big mistake when they give honesty a meaning it never had. I've never kidnapped anybody...
...American Economic Association, American Statistical Association, American Sociological Society, American Farm Economic Association, American Marketing Association, American Association for Labor Legislation, American Association of Teachers of Business Law, American Accounting Association, American Association of University Teachers of Insurance, Tax Policy League, Econometric Society...
...poor by giving food-baskets, clothing, coal and jobs, when such help from an organization called "government" might have regimented the people, sapped their vigor, and paved the way for Socialism. But under Roosevelt and LaGuardia the government by providing relief from the City Hall made unnecessary the exhorbitant tax which New Yorkers paid when this service emanated from the Wigwam. Good government is now preferred to Tammany misrule because good government has ceased to mean merely a balanced budget wrapped up in sterile slogans about initiative and self reliance...