Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During a four year period between 1937 and 1941 the tax rate in Cambridge rose steadily (17 percent) and the caliber of public administration appeared to be static...
...November 1940 they voted in a new form of government, Plan E with proportional representation. Under this system a non-partisan City Manager assumes the duties of mayor. The revised pattern of city administration went into use in 1941 and at the end of the fiscal year the tax rate tumbled $2.40 in the face of a rising cost of living. Cambridge taxpayers beamed...
...Tax rates in Cambridge have continued to slide, though more slowly, so that the tax rate for 1949 will be $39.80 as against the 1941 high of $46.30. Meanwhile the quality of public administration has improved...
Negotiations completed this week between PBH's Social Service Committee and the Athletic Association will enable Brooks House "special events" workers to bring local boys to the Stadium for just the tax on admission seats. Each boy will pay 15 cents, and PBH will handle the remainder of the bill...
...Point Four program by itself, said Schram, "is unsound and illogical" because "it sings the virtues of new investments so long as they are made outside the U.S." What's needed, said he, is a Point Five-"tax changes that will apply the principles of a 'bold new program' . . . both here and abroad...