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Excerpt from Soldiers' Adjusted Compensation, Vol. 5: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Sixty-Sixth Congress, Third Session
The device of giving money away has not been used so much by the ver rich, according to my investigations, as by the moderately rich. Here is an amendment to correct that in House bill 14198, which is before this committee as passed by the House.
My feeling about it is, personally - and} do not know how the Secretary feels on this point - I Should have surtax rates as high as could be successfully collected, but I am perfectly certain that the present surtaxes can not be successfully collected.
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