Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said insiders, behind their hands: Harry Hopkins was mad because Jimmy Byrnes had not shown him his report before it went to Congress. And Henry Morgenthau was mightily put out because Byrnes had not consulted him on the tax proposals. In retaliation. Jimmy Byrnes's enemies began circulating the story that it was he who had let the famed "Clear it with Sidney" crack leak out during the Presidential campaign. Meanwhile, Sam Rosenman was reportedly sulking in his tent, sorry he ever left his New York judgeship to take up residence in the White House...
...tobacco-spittin', suspender-snappin' ex-Governor of Georgia, whose "white supremacy" spiels were his longtime political stock-in-trade, tooted a variation of his old tune in his weekly newspaper, the Statesman, urged Georgia's legislature to repeal the state's $1-a-year poll tax. Said he: "You will get a fairer, expression from the people. . . . There is a great deal of argument that the abolishment of the poll tax would put the Negro to voting . . . such is not the case. The Negroes as a class don't care to vote anyway unless they...
State and Nation. The committee proposed that the Federal Government take a hand in correcting these lacks-but a surprisingly small hand. Rejecting schemes for tax-supported medicine, voluntary insurance, or compulsory health insurance (as proposed in the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill-TIME, Dec. 11 1944), it suggested instead a system of Federal grants-in-aid to the states, for improving local health services. Objects: to build hospitals and health centers, organize health departments where none exist, provide sewage and water-supply systems, milk-pasteurization plants, scholarships and loans to medical and dental students, complete medical care for the needy...
...billion in savings tucked away, more or less reluctantly, because there were no autos, refrigerators, etc. to spend the money on. The best barometer of the nation's wartime spending-and inflation-came from restaurants, nightclubs and taverns. There was an anguished cry when Congress slapped a 20% tax on nightclubs. But their take for the year, along with all other amusement enterprises, was up a billion dollars over...
Cautious Proposal. The first of the U.S. plans offered was cautious. Wholly unofficial, it was the work of Businessmen Beardsley Ruml and Hans Christian Sonne. Their key proposal: tax revenues that would balance the budget only at "high" employment, defined as 55 million people working 40 hours weekly. Their greatest concession to the "spending" theory: public works to keep the construction industry on an even keel. But, although they made a sound banking system, a sound dollar and free enterprise their prime goals and regarded high employment only as something to be "promoted," they gingerly crossed the Great Economic Divide...