Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest congressional belt buckle was the tax reduction bill which Harry Truman had vetoed three weeks ago. Republicans had wrathfully introduced it again. They took another veto for granted. But they thought that by changing the effective date from July 1, 1947 to January 1948, they might muster enough strength to override the President. In the House, Speaker Joe Martin expected to ram the bill through early this week with better than a two-thirds majority, rush it along to the Senate...
...Senate, Republicans had picked up the potent support of tight-fisted Democrat Harry Byrd, who figured that 61 Senators were sure to approve; by next year they would be voting for tax cuts anyway. The Senate agreed to vote in time to have the measure on Harry Truman's desk at least ten days before adjournment, thus prevent a pocket veto (i.e., killing the bill by inaction after Congress is out of session...
...have here, then, a morality play, and just so you'll be sure to get his point, Anderson drives it home with gargantuan strokes of his ideological sledgehammer. Nothing political, of course: mainly a muddy discussion of ends, means, and ought-we-to-do-its that would scarcely tax the reflective powers of a Cambridge High junior. The point--that, like Joan, we may have to make small, bitter concessions in serving the greater concept--becomes clear to the heroine through a puzzling scene in which the deus ex machina descends with a thud to the stage...
...Tax-out opponents, meanwhile, prepared to meet another GOP onslaught as the Republican leaders readied their new four-billion dollar tax-cut bill for a vote in the House today. Yesterday, the House unanimously approved a bill permitting holders of GI terminal leave pay bonds to cash them after next September 1. Congress also heard a message from President Truman, asking it to solve the "tragic problem" of Europe's displaced persons...
People had accused the Townsendites of attacking property rights, banks and big business, said the Doctor. He explained that The Plan only called for a better distribution of the good things of U.S. life. All that was necessary was to levy a 3% tax on the nation's gross income, divide the revenue among old folks, make them spend it within 30 days, and stand aside for prosperity's rush...