Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philip Kastel, which is my associate, to go down there and work the thing out. He went down and he incorporated . . . [Huey Long] wanted to get himself about 25 to 30 thousand dollars per year to donate toward some fund . . . There was supposed to be a tax to the state and that tax was going to some relief of some kind . . . That was his proposal, but it never happened because he died." How did Costello happen to be singled out for so profitable a deal? "Maybe I was the lucky one," he dryly told the jury...
...good times-in other words, balance the budget over a period of years. But if this was the policy, why was the U.S. running a deficit now? John Snyder's answer was at least partly political. The root of the trouble he said, was the tax cut by the Republican-controlled 80th Congress...
...biggest gripes of U.S. railroaders is that their barge-line competitors use the federal-maintained inland waterways, and that trucks and buses use highways also built with tax dollars. "We don't want subsidies," said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads last week, "but if the Government persists in subsidizing our competitors, we may have to accept them." If that threatened socialization, he added: "You could also have socialization by simply running out of money...
...Progressive Farmer (circ. 1,080,575),-but fields ap&rt in journalistic approach. Instead of teMing his readers how to farm, Williams gives them advice on economic matters and something to think about while farming. He crusades against such things as "the fertilizer combine and trusts" and the poll tax, runs pieces on housing, credit and taxes...
Most of the blame for Rank's plight was put on England's 40% entertainment tax, through which the Labor government got $25,000,000 from Rank's films alone. Said Rank: "Too much of the industry's life blood is being drained out of the box office." His plaint was echoed by Sir Alexander Korda, independent moviemaker who has also had his troubles, and who has also asked for aid in the form of tax relief for the industry...