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...Coolidge favored opening all Federal hospitals to ill service men, regardless of whether their diseases were contracted in the service. This plan is not now legal. It is probable that the President may appeal to Congress for a change in the law. If he decides to oppose a soldier bonus, he may present this as a substitute program...
...reductions in taxes, especially if soldier bonus and public buildings measures are enacted...
...fact that the Government may get more money. The La Follette insurgent group are potent fosterers of this impression. They maintain that to burden the rich is to unburden the poor. The argument has a popular vote-getting appeal. They say that there is a coming soldier bonus that must be paid...
...soldier bonus is now, in truth, something more than a likelihood. But if Secretary Mellon is right (and there seems to be much well founded opinion that he is), to reduce the surtaxes would be the best possible way of preparing for a bonus. He holds simply that to burden the rich beyond a certain point is also to burden the poor. Nevertheless, the insurgents in Congress demand that if there be a revision of income surtaxes it be upward instead of down, with excess profits taxes restored. They charge Secretary Mellon with favoritism towards the wealthy. It is probably...
...negative attitude of aloofness toward foreign nations, the private ownership and operation of our railroads, the granting of a subsidy on our merchant marine, readjustment downwards of the income surtaxes, prohibition of future tax-exempt Federal security issues, approval of restrictive immigration, opposition to the soldiers' bonus, advocacy of the " flexible tariff," unqualified endorsement of the Federal Reserve system and opposition to unwise changes in the Federal Reserve...