Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion. Inevitably, Washington seers concluded that his resignation, on the heels of Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Ackley's appointment as ambassador to Rome, was intended to appease House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills and thus help to resuscitate the Administration's tax rise...
Wednesday, December 20, 1967, was a great day for Massachusetts' legislature, the General Court. It was on that day, early in the morning, that a $94 million tax bill was sent to and was signed by Governor John A. Volpe. In return for the successful enactment of the tax bill, Boston Mayor-elect Kevin H. White resigned as Secretary of State at noon. At 2 p.m. the children, students at "state schools" and the guests of the General Court, arrived for their annual Christmas party. A little later in the afternoon, despite the atemps of Rep. Dever (who likened House...
Quinn proclaimed himself "the happiest man in Massachusetts." But Kevin White should have been even happier. On that day he witnessed the successful completion of a very risky and daring political ploy. The tax bill which Volpe had signed that morning was one designed to enable the state government to assume the costs of all local welfare programs. In the summer of 1967, the General Court authorized the Commonwealth to take over all the welfare programs administered by the cities and towns. In essence, the Welfare Re-Organization Act meant the elimination of all municipal welfare agencies and replaced them...
Although the General Court authorized such a takeover and decreed it effective July 1968, it neglected to set any taxes to pay the costs of welfare. Last autumn a tax bill was introduced but Speaker Davoren and the rest of the Democratic leadership weren't too interested in raising taxes and the chances of passing an adequate financing bill were meager. In other words, the Welfare Re-Organization scheme was strictly a paper...
...representative from Boston--the Dorchester section--and to injure legislation beneficial to Boston's plight would not sit well with the home-folks. In light of the long-standing awe and respect that exists for doing things "the system" way. White's decision to force passage of the tax bill was, nonetheless, a courageous one. Chalk one up for His Honor...