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FDR: “An excise tax of this amount would yield approximately $100,000,000 per annum to the Treasury of the United States.”

On the recordFebruary 28, 1937
An excise tax of this amount would yield approximately $100,000,000 per annum to the Treasury of the United States.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Message to Congress on a Sugar Quota System

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