Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 15, 1888.Resolved, that the tax on tobacco should be abolished...
...tobacco tax does not fall equally on the whole country.- Whitman; "Internal Commerce of the United States...
...Unless the tobacco tax is repealed the revenue will not be sufficiently reduced.- Congressional Record, 43d Cong., 2d Sess., March 3d, 1875; 45a Congress, 3d Congress, March 1st, 1879; 47th Congress, 2d session...
...Tobacco as a luxury is considered a proper commodity for taxation by all the leading governments of Europe. (a) The repeal of the entire tax means cheaper tobacco and increased consumption: i. e., the increase of a great evil. (b) The repeal of this tax will involve the retention of taxes on the necessaries of life...
...said that only seventeen of the ninety-three Dartmouth freshmen use tobacco. The others have not yet got beyond the sweet fern period...