Word: consumptionism
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I. The income tax is a just tax. - (a) It is an assessment on a man's ability to pay. - (b) It falls upon those who are best able to pay. - (1) Incomes more than necessary for actual living expenses. - (c) It equalizes the burden of taxation. - (1) The poor...
V. The income tax is especially applicable at this time. - (a) There is a great deficit in the treasury: Wm. L. Wilson in N. A. R. Jan. '94. - (b) The income tax will enable this deficit to be made up without the imposition of further taxes on consumption. - (c) This...
Robert W. Cunningham '97 died at his home in Brookline on Sunday morning. He prepared for Harvard at Noble and Greenough's school in Boston, and entered the college at the beginning of last year. He remained at Harvard until the middle of his first year, when he was forced...
In considering the influences at work on the English, terms of law, of the church, and words for articles of necessity and consumption would naturally be those in which the alien would triumph over the native nomenclature. In the third class we should of course expect to find the greatest...
ling. (2) Productive of large income; a duty of one cent would afford an annual revenue of $38,000,000. (3) While mainly a revenue duty, it would also give protection to the domestic production of both cane and beet sugar. (4) Would cause little trouble to the consumers; sugar...