Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking to a joint meeting of four service clubs, Pusey said that although educational institutions are tax exempt, Harvard stands fifth on the 1958 Cambridge tax rolls with a payment of nearly...
...addition to these tax payments on University-owned property not used for educational purposes, Harvard, Radcliffe and M.I.T. also pay money "in lieu of taxes" on much other property. Under this voluntary contract with the city, Harvard has paid the city more than $384,000 since 1928. All in all, the University expects to pay the city about $220,000 next year...
Defending the tax-exempt status of educational institutions, Pusey said this status is a "recognition of the need for colleges and universities in our state and nation--a public need." He pointed out that if Harvard had not been left to private support, the burden of providing such facilities would have fallen on the state, and Cambridge taxpayers would have carried a share of this burden...
...late April and beyond was to ignore the outcries of veterans' organizations and tap the state's $50 million veterans' trust fund, set up in 1946. Even if he can find a way to get at the trust fund, Soapy will still have to push for tax increases to keep the state solvent. Republicans in the legislature have proposed to blot up the red ink by upping the sales tax to 4%, but Soapy Williams adamantly opposes any sales tax boost, urges instead a progressive state income tax on middle and upper bracket incomes...
...bill authorized Alessandri to grant a once-and-for-all nationwide wage adjustment, reorganize the tax system, fire civil servants, establish a new monetary system, modify the nation's banking. He will also be empowered to reorganize public utilities, consolidate government or semi-government agencies, control monopolies and practices that restrict free trade. The powers are drastic, but so is the squeeze on Chile's economy. The 1959 budget of $465,600,000 is unbalanced by $242,500,000; industrial output has sagged 10% in the past three years; food production falls far short of keeping up with...