 | Gustavus Myers - 1910 - 740 sidor
...Great accumulations of wealth cannot be justified on the basis of personal or family security. Such inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the...the generation which established our government." What part History of the Great American Fortunes had in influencing public opinion is not for me to... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1935 - 348 sidor
...this tax should be in addition to the existing Federal estate taxes. The President states that — inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the...of the generation which established our Government. The task of designing a proper inheritance tax law is a difficult one, for in addition to the problem... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1935 - 422 sidor
...control in a relatively few individuals over the employment and welfare of many, many others. Such inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the...of the generation which established our Government. Creative enterprise is not stimulated by vast inheritances. They bless neither those who bequeath nor... | |
 | United States U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on finance - 1935 - 420 sidor
...control in a relatively few individuals over the employment and welfare of many, many others. Such inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the...of the generation which established our Government. Creative enterprise is not stimulated by vast inheritances. They bless neither those who bequeath nor... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1935 - 364 sidor
...this tax should be in addition to the existing Federal estate taxes. The President states that — inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the ideals of this generation aa inherited political power was inconsistent with the ideals of the generation which established our... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1973 - 564 sidor
...control in a relatively few individuals over the employment and welfare of many, many others. "Such inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the...of the generation which established our government. •'. . . A tax upon inherited economic power is a tax upon static wealth, not upon that dynamic wealth... | |
 | Sheldon D. Pollack - 2010 - 340 sidor
...called for a federal inheritance tax on the transfer of great wealth: "[inherited economic power is inconsistent with the ideals of this generation as...the generation which established our Government." Second, Roosevelt asked Congress for an increase of the surtax on income above $1 million: "Social... | |
 | James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn - 2001 - 716 sidor
...tempered radicalism." His cousin Franklin concurred. "Inherited economic power," FDR stated in 1935, "is as inconsistent with the ideals of this generation...the generation which established our government." And TR's niece Eleanor also worked at creating what she called a "social revolution," the goal of which... | |
 | Winfried Fluck, Welf Werner - 2003 - 314 sidor
...of conirol in relatively few individuals over the enjoyment and welfare of many, many others. Such inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the...the ideals of the generation which established our Government.7 Zwar scheiterten Roosevelts Pläne der zusätzlichen Einführung einer Erbanfallsteuer,... | |
 | International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. Conference, Rosalind F. Atherton - 2003 - 246 sidor
...perpetuation of great and undesirable concentration of control in a relatively few individuals ... Such inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the...with the ideals of the generation which established [the United States]. Theodore Roosevelt agreed, saying 'we must see that each is given a Square Deal,... | |
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... Great accumulations of wealth cannot be justified on the basis of personal and family security. In the last analysis such accumulations amount to the perpetuation of great and undesirable concentration of control in a relatively few individuals over... 
