Taxes on Income, Inheritances, and Gifts, S.J. Res. 23, April 19561956 - 127 páginas |
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... three - fourths of the several States : " ARTICLE- " SECTION 1. The sixteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed . " SEC . 2. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on ...
... three - fourths of the several States : " ARTICLE- " SECTION 1. The sixteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed . " SEC . 2. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on ...
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... three - fourths of the Members of each House , to exceed that rate at any time without limit . If the top rate is to exceed 25 percent , however , it can never be more than 15 percentage points above the bottom rate . For example , if ...
... three - fourths of the Members of each House , to exceed that rate at any time without limit . If the top rate is to exceed 25 percent , however , it can never be more than 15 percentage points above the bottom rate . For example , if ...
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... third . From $ 16,000 to $ 18,000 , it's a half . From $ 32,000 to $ 38.000 it's two - thirds . From $ 50,000 to $ 60,000 it's three - fourths . And so on , until the top rates of 91 percent ( more than nine - tenths ) is reached at ...
... third . From $ 16,000 to $ 18,000 , it's a half . From $ 32,000 to $ 38.000 it's two - thirds . From $ 50,000 to $ 60,000 it's three - fourths . And so on , until the top rates of 91 percent ( more than nine - tenths ) is reached at ...
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... three- fourths vote of each branch of the Congress . I say that to indicate that there is much misunderstanding , much misconception as to what this amendment really does . It isn't designed to deprive Congress of the power to raise ...
... three- fourths vote of each branch of the Congress . I say that to indicate that there is much misunderstanding , much misconception as to what this amendment really does . It isn't designed to deprive Congress of the power to raise ...
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... three - fourths of the Members of each House , to exceed that rate at any time without limit . When the top rate exceeds 25 percent , however , it can be no more than 15 percentage points above the bottom rate . For example , if the ...
... three - fourths of the Members of each House , to exceed that rate at any time without limit . When the top rate exceeds 25 percent , however , it can be no more than 15 percentage points above the bottom rate . For example , if the ...
Términos y frases comunes
$15 billion 16th amendment 25 percent 29th Annual Rendezvous adopted American Bar Association American Coalition Ancient and Honorable April April 24 Baltimore News-Post bottom rate brackets budget call a convention capital Chairman Coalition of Patriotic Coleman Andrews committee Communist Cong Congress to call constitutional amendment constitutional convention corporations debt DRESSER economic estate tax Federal Government fiscal gift taxes Honorable Artillery Company House income tax rates income-tax individual income tax inheritances Internal Revenue Joint Resolution 23 legislatures loss ment National Society Women organization PACKARD PATMAN Patriotic Societies power of Congress progressive tax proposed amendment question ratification reduced Reed-Dirksen amendment rescind Richard Byrd RUTTENBERG Senate Joint Resolution Senator Dirksen Senator LANGER SMITHEY Society Women Descendants statement submit system of taxation tax system taxable income taxing incomes taxpayers three-fourths tion top rate two-thirds United United States Senate vote Washington Western Tax Council Whereas WILLIAM LANGER
Pasajes populares
Página 53 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Página 47 - In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution...
Página 45 - England, forbids tying up the ownership of property for a longer period than a life or lives in being and twenty-one years.
Página 52 - I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.
Página 100 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Página 94 - The United States has a system of taxation by confession. That a people so numerous, scattered and individualistic, annually assesses itself with a tax liability, often in highly burdensome amounts, is a reassuring sign of the stability and vitality of our system of self-government.
Página 52 - ... Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Página 24 - If it become unjust, who shall trust it? "As sentinels on the country's watchtower, Senators, I beseech you - watch and guard with sleepless dread that corporation which can make all property and rights, all States and people, and all liberty and hope its playthings in an hour, and its victims forever.
Página 102 - That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen. It was requisite therefore that a mode for introducing them should be provided. The mode preferred by the Convention seems to be stamped with every mark of propriety. It guards equally against that extreme facility which would render the Constitution too mutable; and that extreme difficulty which might perpetuate its discovered faults.
Página 110 - As the legislatures of Tennessee and of West Virginia had power to adopt the resolutions of ratification, official notice to the Secretary, duly authenticated, that they had done so was conclusive upon him, and, being certified to by his proclamation, is conclusive upon the courts.