Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poor Millionaire. People with incomes of $10,000 or more made up only 1.79% of all taxpayers, but they paid 42.14% of the tax. Only the returns of people in high income brackets got automatic, detailed inspection. But the average man could get scant comfort from this- all returns were checked for arithmetic and obvious larceny, and 150,000 would be picked at random during 1949 and investigated down to the last deduction...
Even a man who made a million dollars a year (there were only 94 by the most recent count, as compared with 513 in 1929), would feel a certain caution after paying up to $770,000 in tax. Many of the nation's heavy spenders, who kept the big nightclubs and the Florida hotels open, used expense-account dollars, which was still fun-but not quite in the same old, free and purposeless...
...Arkansas, aggressive, young (36) Governor Sidney S. McMath was having as much trouble putting over civil rights as his good friend Harry Truman, who already had tapped McMath as the kind of progressive leader the South needs. The legislature adjourned after blocking McMath's anti-lynch, anti-poll tax program. To rebel cries that McMath was trying to produce a "mongrel" race, the governor replied wearily: "I thought we had gotten above that sort of thing...
...Alaska, where there are two men for every woman, Representative William Egan proposed a $50-a-year tax on unmarried females, to "further the institution of matrimony, relieve the housing shortage...
Premiums are raised through a 6% payroll tax, shared equally by employees and employers. Austria, since 1888, has copied the German pattern. More than 6,500,000, or 90% of the population, are now health-insured. White-collar workers contribute 4.2%, and manual laborers 5 to 6.5% of their wages. Administration is in the hands of semiprivate companies supervised by the government. Sweden, since 1891, has promoted voluntary sickness and accident insurance. More than half the population, or 4,700,000, are covered. They pay varying premiums to government-approved societies. The government pays 55% of the societies' outlay...