 | National Conference of Social Work (U.S.). Annual Session - 1926 - 732 pages
...purpose is to take from the wage-earner his most essential right, his right to voluntary association. It has been said that the power to tax is the power to destroy. With equal truth we say that the control of employment is the power of life or death. In... | |
 | Ray Osgood Hughes - 1922 - 680 pages
...general welfare." Taxes have therefore been used for a number of other purposes than getting money. It has been said that " the power to tax is the power to destroy." State governments and national government have used the taxing power even to this extreme.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Public Lands - 1943 - 188 pages
...administration of our local government to meet the immediate and existing local needs of our people. It has been said that the power to tax is the power to destroy. Withholding the power to tax is likewise the power to destroy, for the reason that if you... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on judiciary - 1932 - 234 pages
...ROBBINS. As I say. I do not know what the Comptroller General is going to do in this particular case. It has been said that " the power to tax is the power to destroy"; and the power to determine that we shall not have a certain kind of machine or a certain... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor - 1939 - 982 pages
...States the sums appropriated in accordance with rules regulations which they shall make and prescribe. It has been said that the power to tax is the power to and the power to give and withhold money is the power to coerc— =» and control. There is, inherent... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1968 - 406 pages
...through federal support, in communications through federal regulations, and in every other walk of life. It has been said that the power to tax is the power to destroy. But should the federal government determine that each of its dollars can be tied to conditions... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1975 - 568 pages
...rather because this system does not provide largess for one sector of society at the expense of another. It has been said that the power to tax is the power to destroy. We are seeing already the destruction of our economy largely because of a hodgepodge —... | |
 | United States. Dept. of Agriculture - 1894 - 726 pages
...of needed revenue. The power to tax, more recently, has been used for regulatory and other purposes. It has been said that the power to tax is the power to destroy; it should be used wisely. The spending power of the Government may well have as great an... | |
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It has been said that the power to tax is the power to destroy; conversely, the power to cut taxes is the power to restore. 
