Luxuries Quotes
At the beginning of the First World War the senator called for surplus profits taxes on business to finance the war effort. President Wilson preferred bond financing and the business community castigated the Senator for not supporting the President's position. Later, when Wilson adopted the senator's view and called for additional taxes:
This was his most famous speech.
What makes this quotation so noteworthy is that it not only demonstrates good leadership in a poor country, but it is one of the very few examples of poor countries where the leaders have given up their own creature comforts, conveniences, perks and status symbols.
At the time there were tax breaks for large yachts but not for small boats that a middle class person might own. It was another example of the tax laws at the time where the poor paid only Social Security taxes, and the rich lobbied for an got very large tax breaks and subsidies and hence the burden was carried by an increasingly stressed middle class and by cuts in services to the needy. The companies that made the yachts also supported the tax breaks as did the unions and workers in the industry. See {624985}. .
The Muslims conquered Spain and controlled it to one extent or another for 600 years. In the strict Muslim culture access to sex with was a major attraction. The Moors brought few women with them and in their 600 year dominance of much of Spain interbred profusely do that today there is some Moorish blood in most Spanish families.
Gunsmiths were few in early America and a skilled gunsmith could only make about 3 per month. As a result guns in early America were a luxury and few Americans orned them. This is contrary to the myth that the early Americans were all gun owners and sharpshooters.
Herbert Hoover had made a name for himself by his splendid administration of World War I famine relief, but he was also :
She had a plan whereby necessities would be free to all citizens. See Related Quotes. This was in 1933.
Roosevelt was very candid with the American people that there would be high cost to war and sacrifice would be needed. See {584569} for other similar candor. This quotation was often used by critics of George W. Bush who initiated the Iraq War and then cut taxes for the rich, but then financed the war through the budgetary emergency appropriations bypassing the budget rules that the revenue must be specified to pay for it. His administration even claimed at an early stage in the war that the oil revenue from Iraq oil would defray the costs.
See {616194} for his view on technological change.
