Remarks at the Auditorium in Richmond, Virginia
11/09/1909
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If the court should maintain its former view, no tax would be collected at all.
I am informed that a 2 per cent. tax of this character would bring into the Treasury of the United States not less than $25,000,000.
For the Congress to assume that the court will reverse itself, and to enact legislation on such an assumption, will not strengthen popular c...
Another merit of this tax is the federal supervision which must be exercised in order to make the law effective over the annual accounts and...