Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time when even those of us who don't know much about what goes on in the outside world have some inkling that affairs are not at their normal smoothness, and education in particular is not rolling in gold. We are warned by college presidents that if the tax payer doesn't help, private educational institutions will go down. We receive heart-rending pleas for money from conscientious people who want to help war-torn people and home-less children whose homes we have helped to destroy, and in the same mail requests for gifts to the Harvard Fund...
...deficit, Truman said, could be blamed on the summer slump, which had decreased tax receipts by $3 billion. Expenditures had increased by $1.6 billion. Cuts in the defense budget and international aid were more than offset by $1.3 billion extra paid out for veterans' benefits, $800 million extra needed to bolster sagging farm prices. Another big item was the unexpectedly high burden of underwriting the mortgage market for veterans and rental housing projects. It had been budgeted at a modest $200 million; it was costing a whopping $1.3 billion-an increase...
...political corpse on election night because they had lost their jobs. With a new major, the city can expect new employees who, at least for a time, will stimulate the city's functioning More than that, the voters who elected Hynes can now demand a strict accounting of their tax money...
...Friends. In Houston, Harris County Tax Collector Carl S. Smith hired the Dale Carnegie Institute to train his 125 clerks to make taxpaying "as pleasant as possible under the circumstances by giving courteous, polite and smiling service...
...campaign, Hynes has made no spectacular commitments. He knows that he cannot reduce the excessive tax rate at present because it is but an indication of a municipal disease that has roots far deeper than the Curley inefficiencies. But he has estimated, nor promised, that he can save the city $1,500,000 yearly; this figure implies a city payroll deduction and the end of the abatements racket...