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...Lords, and Their Lordships with embattled obstinacy would not yield. They had haughtily rejected the Commons' so-called "People's Budget" championed by liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, later the Earl of Oxford & Asquith, and were arrayed against the radical proviso to impose an extreme tax on income and property of Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George, whose ungentlemanly Limehouse speeches at this time were all about "our dissolute dukes...
...would have been unsatisfactory to the England of 1910 if the new King had made any rash attempt to champion the peers and the prospective tax payers. This fact His Majesty definitely ascertained by forcing Mr. Asquith to go to the polls for a general election. When the Prime Minister was returned without loss of strength and the Lords still continued obstinate, George V promptly commanded Mr. Asquith to announce that His Majesty would "consider it his duty" to create the 500 peers if necessary, and the House of Lords, appalled, hastily passed the Parliament Bill by a majority...
...converts more than 2.5 percent of its land to tax-exempt status—the likelihood of which Gallop said is impossible to predict—MIT will pay the city as if the additional land were still fully taxed...
...understand the impact that a place like MIT can have on a city’s health,” Gallop said. “We’re still addressing the concern the city has that we could take a huge chunk off the city’s tax rolls. But we are volunteering not to do that...
...their glossy re-election campaign brochures is that Congress also approved an adjustment to the chronically under-funded Pell Grant program, the principal means by which American students receive need-based government grants to attend college. Eligibility for the awards is determined in part by an examination of state tax information, but lawmakers chose to use tax tables that were out of date, clearing the way for some 84,000 students with annual incomes between $30,000 and $45,000 to be removed from the program. At the same time, Congress voted to keep the maximum annual Pell award...