Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every bit Macmillan's match at making politics with peace and prosperity, the Labor Party's Hugh Gaitskell coupled pie-in-the-sky welfare promises with reasons for tax reform that came oddly from the lips of a man whose brushes with manual labor have been at best fleeting. "People making these capital gains," he had intoned, "should pay tax on them so that we who live by the sweat of our brow, or with our hands, could have it a little bit easier." In the thickening fog of oratorical battle, Labor hecklers twice howled down Tory Macmillan...
...with your Taxes. In his new aggressiveness, Macmillan early in the week fired off a taunt that overnight came to dominate the political infighting. Reeling off the list of Gaitskell's promises (retirement at half pay for all, more schools, hospitals, housing), Macmillan asked: "How can you pay for all you promise?" Stung to anger, Hugh Gaitskell, onetime professional economist, retorted with yet another piece of pie-in-the-sky: "There will be no increase in the standard rate of income tax under a Labor government so long as normal peacetime conditions continue." And from London, Labor Party headquarters...
Rebuttal. In Lisbon Falls, Me., when the town's selectmen increased the tax rate on real estate, the citizens held a special meeting, voted to dismiss all five selectmen from their jobs...
...continuing to support a low nominal tuition rate at the University of Massachusetts, I would still maintain that the Commonwealth does not owe anyone an education. . . . What I believe the Commonwealth does owe its citizenry is public tax-supported higher educational opportunity in an amount that will enable all students with limited means but intellectual potential and motivation, to realize that potential to the utmost." Thus, the state university directly attempts to attract students that could not afford a private education--and in this respect the public and private colleges are complementary...
...Boston was lethargic, kindly Thomas Gage, who hoped merely to prevent incidents between his 5,000 bored troops and the restless Boston mobs. The man who refused to give him peace was Samuel Adams, cousin of John, a dumpy, inquisitive politician who had left his job as Boston tax collector when his accounts were found ?8,000 in arrears. Unlike most of the other colonial leaders, he wanted not merely rectification of parliamentary wrongs but independence...