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...indirect taxation"; and proposes instead that great pressure be applied to the collection of the present "direct taxes"-the notoriously "uncollectable" income tax, etc. Then it turns about and tries to levy "indirect taxes" on the rich- the securities, luxury and automobile taxes. Next it straddles by increasing the postal rates, which affect all classes. It resorts to such highly experimental measures as trying to see whether the Government can step in and seize one-third of every estate-a sheer impossibility where the "estate" is literally in the stocking of a tight-fisted French peasant family. Finally it proposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Aristide Pontius Pilate | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...Moscow, the Soviet Postal Bureau again issued warnings that all letters arriving from foreign countries must be marked "U. S. S. R." (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) instead of "Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Notes, Jan. 18, 1926 | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...Adopted the joint resolution previously adopted by the Senate for extending the life of the Postal Rates Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...Passed a joint resolution continuing for another year the life of a committee which is revising the temporary postal rates in effect since last spring in order to enable the rates to be properly revised before being made permanent. (Resolution went to the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...meet the postoffice deficit caused by the increase in the pay of postal employes made last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDGET: Annual Report | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

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