tax reduction act of 1964 pros and cons

<> Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days, 63133. 1935: Capital Gains, 196364. "useRatesEcommerce": false 11. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was one of the most extreme controversies in American history. And now its happening for the third time, and its about time. See Remarks on Signing the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, The American Presidency Project, The Public Papers of the Presidents, 7 June 2001, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=45820&st=&st1=. 80. for this article. He thought that high tax rates might diminish incentives to make more money. Malcolm X, whose original name was Malcolm Little, went to work for the Nation of Islam, He attracted many blacks, especially from the ghettos, by calling for the separation from a corrupt white society. secondary schools, provided health insurance (Medicare) for all citizens 65 and older, and August 29, 2022. . between WW II and the 1960's made women. 34. Walter W. Heller to Lyndon B. Johnson, Economic Impact of the Tax Cut, 2 June 1964, JFKL, WWHPP, Box 23, File: Tax 6/63. As for this series of hearings, see U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Tax Revision Compendium of Papers on Broadening the Tax Base, vols. When Bush signed The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 on 7 June 2001, he stated, Across the board tax relief does not happen often in Washington, DC. Wall Street Takes a Dim View, Business Week, 5 May 1962. Investment Tax Credit. I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of W. Elliot Brownlee, Gareth Davies, Junichi Hasegawa, Eisaku Ide, Takehiko Ikegami, Masaru Kaneko, Cathie Jo Martin, Isaac W. Martin, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Monica Prasad, Luke Roberts, and the anonymous reviewers of JPH. <> 109 0 obj As for the details of the federal tax system structured by the Revenue Act of 1954, see U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, The Federal Revenue System: Facts and Problems, 1961 (Washington, D.C., 1961). 17. endobj Stanley S. Surrey to Thomas G. Morris, 12 March 1964, HSC, HLDL, SSSP, Box 81, File No. 75. I surmise Daniels wrote it to Heller, considering the title of this material and the fact that I found it in a file from a collection of Hellers personal papers. hasContentIssue true, Copyright Donald Critchlow and Cambridge University Press 2017. Zelizer, Taxing America, 309. Then, the administration put great pressure on these companies to reverse their decision and finally, they had no choice but to obey. Gerhard Colm to Walter W. Heller, 11 July 1962, JFKL, WWHPP, Box 22, File: Tax Cut 6/627/62. See Brownlee, ed., The Political Economy of Transnational Tax Reform, 43138. 112. The administration was in conflict with the steel industry over the price of steel. The five tax cuts of George W. Bush mainly included a reduction of individual income tax rates, temporary estate tax cuts, accelerated depreciation, the exclusion of dividend income, cuts in capital gain taxes, and increases in corporate tax breaks. 108. 12,2010600$29$17,400Jan.9,20119003228,800Totalonhand1,500$46,200\begin{array}{|cc} . The horse-trading necessary to get a carbon tax passed might require all sorts of policy contortions. At Harvard, with the benefit of hindsight, he sought to link tax reform to the concept of tax expenditure in order to consider the criteria for choosing between tax incentives and direct expenditure. -LBJ was a self-made man from the poor Texas hill country. origin by employers awarded government contracts and required them to take affirmative 8363 Reducing the Percentage Inclusion and Alternative Rate on Net Long-Term Capital Gain, 16 January 1964, HSC, HLSL, SSSP, Box 53, File No. That is an attack on the responsible citizens of this country who license their dogs. 71. The bill aimed to reduce the corporate income tax rate from 52 percent to 48 percent over the subsequent two years. trailer Keynes wrote that Income taxes, especially when they discriminate against unearned income, taxes on capital-profits, death-duties and the like are as relevant as the rate of interest. 77. endobj However, he said he did not find who said at the hearings of his committees that the rate of taxation was such as to prevent him from working 12 months in the year. <>stream The cap would save roughly 1 million seniors about $1,000 each year. In a similar vein, the bill expands tax credits for clean vehiclesa fantastic solution for emissions reductionbut does not include provisions concerning public transportation, which is needed by many individuals and families that cannot afford an electric . The growth rate of GNP in each quarter proceeded as follows: 1960 IV61I, -1%; 61I61II, 2%; 61II61III, 1.5%; 61III61IV, 2.8%; 61IV62I, 0.8%; 62I62II, 0.7%; 62II62III, 0.2%; and 62III62IV, 1.2%. 281: Ways and Means Committee, 195760; Stanley S. Surrey to Lee Metcalf, 15 January 1960, HSC, HLSL, SSSP, Box 39, File No. endobj In protest, the group occupied the administration building, and several hundred students 90. It is not obvious for whom Harris wrote this report. --Poverty levels dropped 9% during the "war" from 22%to 13%. Spreading throughout the Southwest in 1968 was a. wave of strikes, called 78. 7, no. Douglas Eldridge, other staff from the OTA, Cary Brown, Richard Musgrave, Robert Solow, and Joseph Pechman attended the meeting. American students at N. Carolina A&T College in Greensboro, North Carolina, Sat at a whites-only lunch counter are requested service. Cons of the 1964 Civil Rights Act When faced with pointing out the cons of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, one may feel there aren't many if any. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, January 20 to December 31, 1962, 457. 0000006743 00000 n Keep the Income Tax but Make It Fair, U.S. News & World Report, 27 July 1956; Louis Cassels, This Man Shapes Your Tax Bill, Nations Business, March 1956. 107. 0000001763 00000 n (J), Anand, A.S. (J) (J) -REform of the Johnson, Nixon years, -set up such programs as Job Corps and Head Start; During August 1963, a quarter of a million Americans participated in the largest civil rights demonstration, which took place in, Please give a brief but specific answer to the following question. Inflation Reduction Act which is financed by prudent tax policy that will collect more from top-earners and large corporations. In addition, he was of the opinion that the tax system did not prevent opportunities for more equity capital for larger businesses. Women's increasing participation in the workforce and higher education Another cold war post war practice test thing, John David Jackson, Patricia Meglich, Robert Mathis, Sean Valentine, Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Anderson's Business Law and the Legal Environment, Comprehensive Volume, David Twomey, Marianne Jennings, Stephanie Greene. E&|u(*)x4n.j8F\`wI84MjAzUE>CTl'c>RBk5U It will also . At long last, it's time to Build Back Better though not by that name. Walter W. Heller to John F. Kennedy, 31 July 1962, JFKL, WWHPP, Box 22, File: Tax Cut 6/627/62. 93. 405: Hon. 7. . Vincent P. Moravec to Kenneth ODonnell, 13 February 1963, JFKL, WWHPP, Box 22, File: Tax 2/13/632/27/63. Smith argued as follows: We must continue to keep our interest rates adjusted to those prevailing in foreign money centers in order to prevent . The CEA defined the criterion of full employment as a 4% unemployment rate. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed on July 2, 1964 and was signed into law by President Johnson. +AlIL What actually happened Perhaps it is a good start, but it's not a serious effort given the CBO's economic forecast. 14. Henry H. Fowler to Russell B. <> Paul A. Samuelson and Robert M. Solow to John F. Kennedy, The Final Decision August Look at the Case for an Immediate Tax Cut, 10 August 1962, JFKL, WWHPP, Box 22, File: Tax Cut 8/62. --On the other hand, no significant redistribution of income resulted even after increased funding for food stamps, public housing, and health care. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ("TCJA") changed deductions, depreciation, expensing, tax credits and other tax items that affect businesses. Please give the pros and cons of the Reduction Tax Act if 1964. The administration regarded a rise in the price of steel would significantly influence the prices of other products and the economy as a whole and sent major steel companies letters to inform them they should not seek profits via price increases. The corporate tax rates also experienced a reduction. W. Elliot Brownlee, Tax Regimes, National Crisis, and State-building in America, in Funding the Modern American State, ed. \text { Jan. 9, 2011} & \cdots\cdots\cdots\cdots\cdots\cdots\cdots\cdots & 900 & 32 & 28,800 \\ Walter W. Heller to John F. Kennedy, 29 June 1962, JFKL, WWHPP, Box 22, File: Tax Cut 6/627/62; Walter W. Heller to John F. Kennedy, Report from Scattered Sectors: Economic and Tax Front, 20 July 1961, JFKL, WWHPP, Box 22, File: Tax Cut 4/6111/61. Robert A. Wallace, Possible Compromise on Tax Package, 19 November 1962, JFKL, RDTMPO, Roll 40, Folder 2 of 2, File: Asst. Instructions Gardner Ackley to John F. Kennedy, Your Meeting with AFL-CIO Economic Policy Committee, 8 November 1962, JFKL, WWHPP, Box 22, File: Tax Cut 11/62. 1941A: Five Percent Floor, 1963. 76. Bartlett, Bruce, The Benefit and the Burden: Tax ReformWhy We Need It and What It Will Take (New York, 2012)Google Scholar; Zelizer, Taxing America; Manley, John F., The Politics of Finance: The House Committee on Ways and Means (Boston, 1970)Google Scholar; Stein, Fiscal Revolution in America. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Zelizer cited this Millss argument from Transcript: Meet the Press, 11 June 1972, HCA, WDMPC, Box 397, File 3. PurchaseDateDec. Lyndon B. Johnson: Radio and Television Remarks upon Signing the Tax Bill, 26 February 1964, ed. In theory, the tax will reduce pollution and encourage more environmentally friendly alternatives. 0000001962 00000 n Program of Panel Discussion in General Revenue Revision, 1959, 8 September 1959, NACP, RG 56, OTPSF, Box 68, File Folder 55: Tax Legislative Program for 195960, Mills Subcommittee, 195962. <> 3. With President Joe Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act into law on Aug. 16, it marks one of the biggest spending packages in American history at $750 billion, per CNN. <>>> The act cut federal income taxes by approximately twenty percent across the board, and the top federal income tax rate fell from 91 percent to 70 percent. The stimulative effect of tax reduction will boost demand and heighten the incentive for investment and risk-taking. endstream --University of California, Berkley, Please give a brief but specific answer to the following question. %%EOF Through the policymaking and legislative process, the Kennedy administrations Council Economic Advisers defeated the Treasury and Surrey by domesticating Keyness ideas on tax policy. J. Sinclair Armstrong to Stanley S. Surrey, 24 April 1963, HSC, HLSL, SSSP, Box 92, File No. [8] In January 1963, Kennedy presented Congress with a tax proposal that would reduce the top marginal tax rate from 91 percent to 65 percent, and lower the corporate tax rate from 52 percent to 47 percent; in total, the cut was projected to decrease income taxes by about $10 billion and corporate taxes by about $3.5 billion. L. 88-272 ), also known as the Tax Reduction Act, was a tax cut act proposed by President John F. Kennedy, passed by the 88th United States Congress, and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. And the extra taxes levied on corporations do not reflect increases in the corporate tax rate, but Whites bombed black churches, and beat and jailed activists, and also shot them. Repealed investment tax credit. voting rights. Source of government revenue: Taxes is a source of government funding and allow the government to spend the money on improving the country's infrastructure. endstream I elaborate on Surreys responsibility and role inside the Treasury at the time he wrote this in the last section. 67. endobj the activists with protection. As for the mass-based income taxation, see Jones, Carolyn C., Class Tax to Mass Tax: The Role of Propaganda in the Expansion of the Income Tax during World War II, Buffalo Law Review 37 (1989): 685737.Google Scholar. The Council Economic Advisers, Proposals for Tax Reduction, 5 June 1962, JFKL, WWHPP, Box 22, File: Tax Cut 6/627/62. Sen. 13 0 obj 12,2010Jan.9,2011TotalonhandQuantity6009001,500UnitCost$2932TotalCost$17,40028,800$46,200. 134. The Inflation Reduction Act claims it would reduce the deficit by slightly more than 1% of GDP over a decade. He became a professor in 1960. The first attempt at passing the tax cuts was rejected by Congress in 1963. Phased-in increase in personal exemption amount from $600 to $750. This letter appeared in the New York Times on 31 December 1933. 96. The Treasury Department, Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1964 (Washington, D.C., 1965), 36. 126. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, January 20 to November 22, 1963, 7392. 281: Ways and Means Committee, 195760; Stanley S. Surrey to John W. Byrnes, 15 January 1960, HSC, HLSL, SSSP, Box 39, File No. Under President Donald Trump, this sweeping piece of. Or maybe that it's a justified contradiction to the first amendment, which from the U.S. Constitution reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of . 61. Making energy more expensive might do this, they caution. It's Tax Time The federal government says you owe $5,000 in taxes. <> For decades, the fossil fuel industry's stranglehold on US politics kept action at bay. Total loading time: 0 endobj <>/ProcSet 132 0 R/XObject 111 0 R>> 32. Revenue Act of 1964 Revenue Act of 1962 Tax Reform Act of 1969 Personal Exemption. Henry H. Fowler to the Files, Conference with Chairman Wilbur Mills re Tax Program, 15 November 1962, JFKL, Record of Department of Treasury Microfilm Print Outs (RDTMPO), Roll 48, File: 1964 Revenue Act Mr. Surreys Memos to the File 2/27/626/15/63. (3) It would give too large a proportion of the tax cuts to corporations (46% of the total tax cut) and upper-income individuals (54% of the cut to individuals with less than $10,000). 16 0 obj The A $740 billion package signed by Biden on Tuesday, includes tax breaks and tax increases. The proposal would accelerate provisions that were enacted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (P.L. Walter W. Heller to James Tobin and Kermit Gordon, Eventual Memo to the President on Tax Cuts, 20 February 1961, John F. Kennedy Library (JFKL), Walter W. Heller Personal Papers (WWHPP), Box 21, File: Tax Cut 11/24/603/29/61. After JFK's assassination, debate continued over how to assess his domestic record, which included initiatives on. Betty Friedan, author of the best-selling and highly critical "The Feminine Mystique," and other activists founded _________ in 1966. 29. 54. 0000001863 00000 n 1944: Dividend Credit Exclusion, 196364. 109. 106 29 The attack should be on those who do not act responsibly. 66. He believed that the federal tax system did not destroy the middle class. Skinner, Kiron K., Anderson, Annelise, and Anderson, Martin (New York, 2001), 27477.Google Scholar, 9. . The A $740 billion package signed by Biden on Tuesday, includes tax breaks and tax increases. Seymour E. Harris, Where Is the Money Coming From? 8 October 1956, HSC, HLSL, SSSP, Box 14, File No. 51. To help more working families cut down on transportation costs, this legislation provides a $4,000 tax credit specifically for lower- and middle-income individuals to buy a used clean vehicle . 100. Democrats have had trouble rallying support for the act from all party members in the Senate an evenly divided body where every vote counts. <> Full-employment output is the notion of output assumed when an economy is at full employment. 107-16), including the expansion of the 10-percent income tax bracket, the reduction in the individual marginal income tax rates, marriage penalty tax relief, and the increase in the child tax credit from $600 to $1,000. See Goode, Richard, The Individual Income Tax (Washington, D.C., 1964), 236.Google Scholar. <> Richard Musgrave, Fiscal Policy Outlook, 28 June 1962, JFKL, WWHPP, Box 22, File: Tax Cut 6/627/62. See Moggridge, Donald, The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Volume 21: Activities 19311939: World Crises and Policies in Britain and America (Cambridge, 1982), 29093.Google Scholar, 21. Southern, white police used attack dogs, clubs, fire hoses, and tear gas against protestors. The measure was based upon the economists' firmly held view that a tax reduction to spur demand and investment would provide a stimulus to economic activity. 1875: Campaign, 1964. endobj 53. 91. After Johnson agreed to decrease the total federal budget to under $100 billion, powerful conservative Senator Harry F. Byrd dropped his opposition to a tax cut, clearing the way for its passage as the Revenue Act of 1964. The Treasury Department, Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1970 (Washington, D.C., 1971), 29. The key one is corporate and international taxes. .0e ,"0}m@NH0 405: Hon. Some provisions of the TCJA that affect individual taxpayers can also affect business taxes. In addition, Hansen and Lerner argued that controlling individual income tax rates could have useful short-term purposes, such as economic recovery and restraint of inflation. This reform included not only the reduction of the individual income tax rate scale from 22.292% to 2091%, but also reform measures designed to narrow the tax base. Not only did he cut tax rates, but the Tax Reform Act of 1986 simplified the income-tax code by eliminating many tax shelters, reducing the number of deductions and tax brackets. startxref 69. Steuerle, Eugene C., Financing the American State at the Turn of the Century, in Funding the Modern American State, 19411995: The Rise and Fall of the Era of Easy Finance, ed. Eric M. Patashnik, Budgeting More, Deciding Less, 4344; Paul Pierson, From Expansion to Austerity: The New Politics of Taxing and Spending, 5661; C. Eugene Steuerle, Financing the American State at the Turn of the Century, 41925. 1875: Campaign, 1964. Stanley S. Surrey to K. H. Koach, 6 February 1964, HSC, HLSL, SSSP, Box 53, File No. H|Oo@HZ)r=>&H"!K4{ rD1`LY>)4H>C/QI;(:00eQY6Z 2P%;2. The new bill would also impose an excise tax equal to 1% of fair market value for stock buybacks by companies and executives. 72. It includes instituting a minimum corporate tax of 15% for any organization that nets $1 billion-plus in income, or revenue of $300 billion. . We have been encouraged in that move by the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and the Chairman of the Finance Committee; they have proven their faith in us by passing this tax bill, and we are trying togoing to keep faith with them by cutting expenditures. Wilbur D. Mills, 195659. Herbert Stein, The Fiscal Revolution in America, Part II, in Funding the Modern American State, 19411995, ed. See Keep the Income Tax but Make It Fair, U.S. News & World Report, 27 July 1956. This is a blind report. Fatemi, N. et al., The Dollar Crisis: The United States Balance of Payments and Dollar Stability (Rutherford, N.J., 1963), 3839, 54.Google Scholar. Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, Office of Tax Analysis, The Treasury Recommendation for Deleting Provision H.R. 74. The New York Times in August 1962 stated, Without a clear and present dangeras the President expressed itthe Administration felt that it could not excite Congress into emergency action. Penalizes the middle and lower classes The fair tax plan is a progressive tax where the rich pay more and the poor and middle class pay less, but this is only true if an individual spends 100% of his earnings on taxable expenses. "Blow Outs," through which racism in the public schools was protested by? 79. The students claimed the right to freedom of expression and [10], Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded Kennedy as president after the latter was assassinated in November 1963. xVN@}G5^m)D \p)@PZ$kBg=;4qN8`Q8@cpW5NX?p}sohMm4x&B ?X/.~ll7>>;s> qmuWCmy0{&1M*p6$=3l=9M\y":x59mZxL.7=k94B &H}WB" OZte)tAxe=W@e:8s`3lu&Z{ya[^H%U!w Y <> Stanley S. Surrey to Edward J. Patten, 8 January 1964, HSC, HLSL, SSSP, Box 81, File No. The Revenue Act of 1964, with its large tax reduction at a time when the budget was in deficit; marked a watershed in tax policy history. There has been frequent reference to Kennedy having not mastered economic knowledge at all. 37. 263: Tax Administration Conference; Henry S. Bloch to Stanley S. Surrey, Preparatory Meeting for the Conference on Tax Administration in Under-developed Countries, 8 February 1957, HSC, HLSL, SSSP, Box 35, File No. 0000007930 00000 n . --The "New Left" focused on civil rights, world peace, economic security for all, and student rights. The Regulation Of Microfinance In India: - The World Bank Members of the microfinance community have engaged with the Government of India in a dialogue regarding the regulation of microfinance service and presentation of the pros and cons of various reform or (iii) a society registered under the AP Cooperative Societies Act, 1964 . 36. 82. The act made illegal the segregation of blacks in public facilities; established a Fair Employment Practices Commission to lessen racial discrimination in employment, and protected some black Besides from being an important step to equality, it was also a glimmering beacon of hope for all of those who were victims of discrimination. However, I would put greater emphasis on the following two points. Witte, The Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax, 16672. The five tax cuts of George W. Bush mainly included a reduction of individual income tax rates, temporary estate tax cuts, accelerated depreciation, the exclusion of dividend income, cuts in capital gain taxes, and increases in corporate tax breaks. If fiscal policy is used as a deliberate instrument for the more equal distribution of incomes, its effect in increasing the propensity to consume is, of course, all the greater. He continued: Assuming that the State applies the proceeds of these duties to its ordinary outgoings so that taxes on incomes and consumption are correspondingly reduced or avoided, it is, of course, true that a fiscal policy of heavy death duties has the effect of increasing the communitys propensity to consume. See Keynes, John M., The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Volume 7: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Cambridge, 1973), 9495, 37273.Google Scholar. [11] Johnson signed the bill into law on February 26, 1964. Economic Indicators, February 1961, 1; Economic Indicators, February 1963, 2. 39. --Programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Aid to Families with Dependant Children helped millions. endobj See Daunton, Martin J., Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 19141979 (Cambridge, 2002)Google Scholar; Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 17991914 (Cambridge, 2001). Taxing Ourselves: A Citizens Guide to the Debate over Taxes. Stanley S. Surrey to Wilbur D. Mills, Memorandum re General Tax Revision Activities of House Committee on Ways and Means, 19591961, 24 December 1958, HSC, HLSL, SSSP, Box 14, File No. 65. 40. IPvF6SOWX7hV(%m: E'hBPl_bZi'MG5" l E 6. 35. Congressional Budget Office, The Distribution of Major Tax Expenditures in the Individual Income Tax System, http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/43768_DistributionTaxExpenditures.pdf, 2013. 1944: Dividend Credit Exclusion, 196364. He disagreed with the argument that a mere reduction in rates of taxation would generate these economic aspects. 0000004571 00000 n outflows of capital which complicate our balance of payments problem. Antifeminists achieved their greatest victory in blocking. 711(C): Estate and Gift Tax (1), 196167; Stanley S. Surrey to Henry H. Fowler, 24 January 1963, HSC, HLSL, SSSP, Box 84, File No. -Critics of the tax cut questioned its economic impact, arguing that the economic surge was already underway, stimulated by defense spending, new technology, and cheap oil. 43. 281: Ways and Means Committee, 195760. --Among black people, millions entered the middle-class for the first time, but African-American } support for civil rights and other causes. 3 0 obj nk-YE3iX65VOP+yljxmq#\.rEk W^[eKxP'{dn-.>; NP]=5/3kiR[aD)QXf. En*GtH#fa(a."=kwk$3I,' --Moreover, those benefitting most from increased government attention to the poor were often the construction companies, doctors, real estate developers, and middle-class professionals who supplied the services the government demanded. 105. <> hb```e``>"'dg@ ~v Xx>ptU/@3g T_XqQ{R^ endobj The Assembly does not have tax-raising powers, but it seems that the Department has a wonderful way of raising taxes through the back door. In addition, the Bush tax cuts included other measures, such as the expansion of child tax credit and the deduction of higher education. Note: We present this problem in the normal sequence of the accounting cycle-that is, journal entries before ledger entries. 115. 0000007508 00000 n --They distinguished themselves from the majority of the society with their clothing, work ethic, cultural life, and sexual behavior. 0000005319 00000 n August 9, 2022. endobj Indeed, he remembered his grade as C, or so at least he liked to tell his economists in later years (Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days, 621). <> 123. 0000001531 00000 n 130. 104. Many scholars have evaluated it as representative Keynesian tax policy; this article focuses on the effort of the Treasury Department, tax experts such as Stanley S. Surrey and Wilbur D. Mills, the chairman of House Committee on Ways and Means, to reform the federal income tax system comprehensivelymaking it simpler, fairer, and more equitableand their defeat by the 1964 tax cut. 0000007715 00000 n 110 0 obj 9 0 obj On January 15, 2011, BassTrack sold 1,000 Ace-5 fishing reels to Anglers Warehouse. The plan also included reforms designed to reduce the impact of itemized deductions, as well as provisions to help the elderly and handicapped. Keynes recommended tax cuts as temporary measures to promote economic recovery. political action. % 111 0 obj <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 16 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 1>> Specific identification (500 of the units sold were purchased on December 12 , and the remaining 500 were purchased on January 9 ). 113. He mentioned price stability through monetary policy as a long-range purpose. 120. Compare and contrast the "New Left" with the "Counterculture.". <<>> - that criticized the sexist assumptions of dominant, American society. [12] Passage of the long-stalled tax cut facilitated efforts to move ahead on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But not everything in the 730-page law is worth celebrating. 0000003272 00000 n Lee Preston to Walter W. Heller, Dillon Testimony before Ways and Means Committee, 7 August 1962, JFKL, WWHPP, Box 22, File: Tax Cut 8/62. Surrey served in his position until 1968. See, for example, Harvey E. Brazer, 68, Professor of Economics, New York Times, 18 May 1991; Faculty History Project of University of Michigan, http://um2017.org/faculty-history/faculty/harvey-e-brazer. L.88272), also known as the Tax Reduction Act, was a tax cut act proposed by President John F. Kennedy, passed by the 88th United States Congress, and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. 89. The surtax rate would drop to 28% in 1964 and 25% in 1965. It is a fact, contradicting the popular notions about politicians and tax cuts in election years, that neither the Congress nor the public has been aroused by all the recent tax-cut talk. Kennedy Bars Tax Cuts Now, Citing Upturn, New York Times, 14 August 1962. %PDF-1.6 % Dillon wrote: Even though it included a loss of revenue and a substantial budget deficit, provided it was understood that this was geared to an effort to improve the overall state of the economy . resistance. 88. 8 0 obj Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, Office of Tax Analysis, Answers to Specific Points Raised by Mr. G. Keith Funston, President of the New York Exchange, 11 March 1963, HSC, HLSL, SSSP, Box 81, File No. If your ITC is $5,000, but only owe Uncle Sam $2,000 in federal taxes, then the remaining $3,000 credit will be applied to future years. 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