Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing sure to arouse a Southern Congressman, besides affronted Southern womanhood, is the perennial anti-poll tax bill. Last week Southern Congressmen were thus aroused. They spoke their usual bitter words, went down to their usual defeat when House Republicans joined with Northern Democrats and passed the measure...
...Southerners had nothing to worry about. Twice before the House had passed the anti-poll tax bill, twice before the Senate had killed it. The Senate would now do it again, if necessary by filibuster. And every Congressman knew...
Hartford wrote off his loss ($196,000) on his 1942 income tax as a bad debt...
...week Emil Schram, once chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., now president of the New York Stock Ex change, took a fall out of those beaters of anti-inflation drums (such as Marriner Stoddard Eccles) who want to balk rising stock prices by increasing the present 25% capital gains tax. He told the Bond Club of Philadelphia that...
...Increasing the capital gains tax would push prices up further. Higher taxes would not abate the eagerness of those who, for inflationary or other reasons, want to buy stock, but it would definitely reduce the willingness of those who might sell...