Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Congress has refused to pass a requested $350 million increase in postal rates and to cut down farm price supports, only better-than-hoped-for expansion in business can raise tax revenues to keep the 1960 budget at or near balance. So Staats sternly opposed annual slices of $15.5 million to $22 million proposed for health benefits to retired federal workers...
Governor Williams' proffered solution to the money worries was a graduated state income tax, and that sent shudders of horror down Republican spines, and for that matter, down the spines of many of Michigan's industrial workers who are no strangers to income tax forms. As the tax squabble dragged on for months, even some Democrats and union people began to doubt the worth of Williams' plan. Even when the Governor had a chance to let the voters decide between an income tax and a 1% "use" tax, to be piled atop the existing 3% sales tax...
Things could only get worse; state invoices and employees were going unpaid. Last week Williams gave up, reluctantly signed into law a new tax bill: a tiny increase in the state's business activities tax and the 1% so-called use tax...
Though some legislators pretended that the new law would mean the end of Michigan's troubles, most thought otherwise. Lawyers are bound to argue that the use tax is really nothing more than an increase in the sales tax, which the Michigan constitution places at a maximum of 3%. The "solution" could amount to no final fiscal solution for Michigan-but very probably it had solved once and for all the G.O.P.'s problem of Soapy Williams...
Endlessly he defended "provincial autonomy." But Duplessis' continuing squabble with Canada's federal government over tax apportionment, his refusal to let the Trans-Canada Highway go through Quebec, his refusal to allow Quebec universities to accept sorely needed federal grants, made much sense in French Canada. Quebec, over the eventful 200 years since England's Wolfe beat France's Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, has kept its identity, even prospered as a French enclave in the continent of les Anglais and the Yankees. A major reason was just this sort of cohesive orneriness...