Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Gerald ("Neutrality") Nye of North Dakota shouted: "I defy anyone to attack the soundness of this general [transactions tax] principle...
...felt hat, perched herself on the table and read a prepared statement. "Go slower, Tallulah," whispered her father, who sat in as coach (and whom she also hugged for cameras). But she raced on with her arguments-that the theatre should be helped because it yields a 10% Federal tax on its admissions; because its people know no other work and their talents are social assets; because they bring cheer to millions, and give benefit shows to relieve the distress of others. At her conclusion Miss Bankhead broke into tears. Next day she sent the committee a vast basket...
Representative Martin Smith of Washington waved aloft $5,400,000,000 as the first year's yield from a 2% retail sales tax and 2% gross revenue tax on producers, wholesalers, etc., to be divided among 8,000,000 non-working pensioners over 60 who would spend $56.26 each per month...
Friends of John Nance Garner quoted him as predicting, and favoring, cuts in Federal income-tax exemption from $2,500 to $1,200 for married persons, from $1,000 to $500 for single persons, to intensify tax-consciousness, curb spending...
Last week a new generation of Jersey voters, following in the footsteps of 21 other U. S. States which have recently grasped at gambling as a source of revenue, decided to revive horse racing, voted to legalize pari-mutuel betting in their State. Taxes on the pari-mutuel take at four proposed tracks (probable sites: Camden, Atlantic City, Asbury Park and a spot near the Jersey end of the George Washington Bridge, just across the river from New York City) will add $5,000,000 a year for State Relief, avert a threatened State income tax (which Jerseyites have...