Word: deductionism
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The Poor Millionaire. People with incomes of $10,000 or more made up only 1.79% of all taxpayers, but they paid 42.14% of the tax. Only the returns of people in high income brackets got automatic, detailed inspection. But the average man could get scant comfort from this- all returns...
Deduction. In Madison, Wis., Marshall Straus received notice that he had won $13,500 worth of prizes on a radio quiz show, found that 1? in postage was due on the letter.
The second decisive event came when he decided to invent, for use in short stories, a scientific method of crime detection based on the deduction-by-observation habits of Professor Bell. He sketched out a short novel called A Tangled Skein, involving a detective named Sherrinford Holmes and a narrator...
Deduction. In Palermo, Sicily, Giovanni Villa, who has spent four years trying to get himself declared officially alive, complained that the only person convinced thus far is the tax collector.
¶ As a means of increasing the vote in national elections,* New York's Democratic Representative Arthur G. Klein proposed a $30 income-tax deduction for every voter who casts his ballot.