D.C. Revenue Proposals: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs...91-1, on H.R. 12982, August 12, 13, September 3, 5, 19691969 - 391 pages |
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Page 316 - ... the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.
Page 315 - The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of the nation than any other instrumentality of publicity; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgement of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.
Page 226 - Chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia of the House of Representatives.
Page 7 - ... with an additional 5 percent for each additional month or fraction thereof during which failure continues, not to exceed 25 percent in the aggregate (sec.
Page 248 - Dr. Roger Egeberg, Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Page 230 - Newark, NJ ; New Haven, Conn. ; New Orleans, La. ; New York, NY; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Omaha, Neb.; Philadelphia, Pa. ; Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Portland, Ore. ; Providence, RI ; Richmond, Va.; Rochester, NY; Salt Lake City, U.; St.
Page 240 - There is a paragraph that I would like to put in the record at this time, if that is permissible.
Page 244 - These duties were quite commonly characterized as "taxes on knowledge," a phrase used for the purpose of describing the effect of the exactions and at the same time condemning them. That the taxes had, and were intended to have, the effect of curtailing the circulation of newspapers, and particularly the cheaper ones whose readers were generally found among the masses of the people, went almost without question, even on the part of those who defended the act.
Page 315 - The tax here involved is bad not because it takes money from the pockets of the appellees. If that were all, a wholly different question would be presented. It is bad because, in the light of its history and of its present setting, it is seen to be a deliberate and calculated device in the guise of a tax to limit the circulation of information to which the public is entitled in virtue of the constitutional guaranties.
Page 256 - ... the * Founder of the National Council on Alcoholism. treatment and rehabilitation of alcoholics that people can get well from the illness —if given the necessary help. If the diagnosis is cancer or multiple sclerosis or heart disease, it is not always certain that a patient can be helped. But if a person is suffering from alcoholism, we know we can help him control his sickness, once he has dried out and can walk in the sun again. Yet people are still dying needlessly of alcoholism throughout...