Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally, H-442 proposed to deprive any educational institution in the Commonwealth of its tax exemption privileges if it employed an advocate of "atheistic communism" on its faculty. During hearings before the General Court Education Committee the phrasing of H-442 was changed to direct it toward those who preached the "overthrow of the government by force or violence" rather than proponents of communism...
Opponents of the bill, which would deprive educational institutions found guilty of employing subversives of their tax exemption status, fear H. 442 may be difficult to stop in the House...
...suggested the repeal of the corporate income tax as the initial step toward this end. "The only fair deal," he went on, "is a fair deal that allows the business man to do his job and reap his reward. I am not half as afraid of the gargantuan business as I am of the gargantuan state. You can quit General Motors but you can't quit a public health plan or compulsory education...
...plan shifts the financial burden from the consumer to the Treasury, the immediate effect of the plan would be a large drain on the public funds. But any subsidy plan essentially involves a redistribution of income, and this becomes a question of how much income will shift from the tax-payer to the farmer...
...dinner, speakers Robert Lane, director of the recent Greater Boston Survey and John Kingman '14, president of United Settlements, traded attacks. Lane urged that tax-supported agencies Lane urged that tax-supported houses as the main organ for social service work...