Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry had reason to be proud. It had boosted its prewar sales rate of $270 million to $900 million last year, in 1948 expects to gross $1 billion for the first time in its history. The soaring wages of office help, plus the growing complexity of keeping tax, payroll deductions and other records, were driving U.S. offices to mechanize as fast as possible...
Professor Harris also said that congress, in its recent tax reduction program, betrayed its reluctance to carry out a domestic program supporting...
...tenderly slit the top of the envelope and turned it over. No stamps. Disfranchised for lack of postage, Vag thought, and wondered how many others had been affected the same way. No one had ever warned him about the six cents Poll Tax administered by the Post Office Department...
...these, Question 2, "The Good Roads Amendment," would prevent revenue from taxes on gasoline and auto registration from going to non-highway purposes. The Good Roads Committee, made up of 300 "non-political" organizations--including the Grange, the Boston Development Committee, and the Rural Letter Carriers--backs this permanent amendment. The Committee says that since 1929 more than $135,000,000, around a third of the tax intake, has been poured into projects "more politically expedient" than roads. The result has been, the group says, a deterioration of Commonwealth roads. The Committee also claims it is unfair...
...Massachusetts Civic League, which refutes the referendum with two arguments. It says that the permanency of the amendment would make it impossible to use the Highway Fund for any other purpose in case of a local or national emergency. The League also objects on principle to a single purpose tax. Taxes on banks do not go solely to government banking services, the opponents say, so why should auto users get back their own taxes...