Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state or municipal bond paying 5 per cent interest and obtain the same net return as from a surtaxable stock paying dividends of 10 per cent. The average commercial bond, which is subject to normal tax as well as surtax, must pay slightly more, about 10.40 per cent to yield the same, after payment of taxes, as a 5 per cent state or municipal bond to the taxpayer in the highest surtax class. There is every inducement and ample opportunity to the taxpayer in the higher surtax class to transfer his investment funds from railroad and industrial securities to state...
This Article 27, together with Article 33, has been the basis of the new freedom of Mexico because it has given the land back to Mexicans. Hitherto, Obregon has been unable to yield on it for fear of being accused of " selling out to America...
...such as are to be found in details of crime and vice, publication of which is not demonstrably for the general good. Lacking authority to enforce its canons, the journalism here represented can but express the hope that deliberate pander to vicious instincts will encounter effective public disapproval or yield to the influence of a preponderant professional condemnation...
...surtax rates a year ago ranged up to 65%. Now the maximum surtax is 50%. On the basis of March tax returns he now renews his recommendation that maximum surtaxes be reduced to 25%. He asserts that such readustment would yield as large or larger revenues...
...Harvard. The ideal of such a system, as he used it to illustrate his talk yesterday, is to make it possible for each student to find a subject which interests him, and which he can follow out with enthusiasm. No work, without that element of personal interest, can yield enjoyment, and without some return of satisfaction to the worker, any labor becomes stale and doubly tiring...