Comprehensive Tax Reform: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, on the President's Tax Proposals to the Congress for Fairness, Growth, and Simplicity, May 30; June 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 20, 25, 26, 27; July 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 19, 22, 25, 26, 29, 30, and 31, 1985 [hearings Held May 30, 1985 Through July 31, 1985].

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Page 5288 - ... capable of serving as a naval and military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency...
Page 4933 - Resolved, That the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them...
Page 4934 - Resolved, That any person who shall, by speaking or writing, assert or maintain that any person or persons, other than the general assembly of this colony, have any right or power to impose or lay any taxation on the people here, shall be deemed an enemy to His Majesty's colony.
Page 4933 - Resolved, therefore, that the general assembly of this colony, together with his majesty, or his substitute, have, in their representative capacity, the only exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony...
Page 4933 - Resolved, therefore, That the General Assembly of this colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony ; and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
Page 5497 - The Constitution was framed under the dominion of a political philosophy less parochial in range. It was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several States must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
Page 4957 - That hereafter all taxes collected under the internal revenue laws of the United States on articles produced in Puerto Rico and transported to the United States, or consumed in the island shall be covered into the Treasury of Puerto Rico.
Page 4932 - Department of the Treasury, the Operation and Effect of the Possessions Corporation System of Taxation, First, Third and Fourth Reports.
Page 4940 - ... solely by reason of being absent therefrom in compliance with military or naval orders, or to have acquired a residence or domicile in, or to have become resident in or a resident of, any other State, Territory...
Page 5597 - Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I thank you for this opportunity to present these views.

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