Reducing the Public Debt. 86-2, 1960 |
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... question about the fact that what Congress- man Haley and the rest of you gentlemen seek to do can be done . I want to ask this question . You quoted figures on the relationship between the total amount of the per capita national debt ...
... question about the fact that what Congress- man Haley and the rest of you gentlemen seek to do can be done . I want to ask this question . You quoted figures on the relationship between the total amount of the per capita national debt ...
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... questions ? I have been asked to ask you how would Government avoid deficit financing if revenues are not sufficient to ... question . 6 Mr. SMITH . I am sorry I missed some of your testimony . I recall that in the 80th Congress , right ...
... questions ? I have been asked to ask you how would Government avoid deficit financing if revenues are not sufficient to ... question . 6 Mr. SMITH . I am sorry I missed some of your testimony . I recall that in the 80th Congress , right ...
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... question that immediately appears to anyone studying this pro- posal concerns the relatively large percentage of revenue suggested for debt payment , that is 10 percent of estimated revenues . Let me say that I deliberately decided on a ...
... question that immediately appears to anyone studying this pro- posal concerns the relatively large percentage of revenue suggested for debt payment , that is 10 percent of estimated revenues . Let me say that I deliberately decided on a ...
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... question of payments . You might as well pay to reduce the debt as to pay the interest . I think it makes a lot more sense , par- ticularly when the interest rate has doubled , and there is nothing in sight to indicate that it is going ...
... question of payments . You might as well pay to reduce the debt as to pay the interest . I think it makes a lot more sense , par- ticularly when the interest rate has doubled , and there is nothing in sight to indicate that it is going ...
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... questions I asked was : " Do you favor systematically reduc- ing the national debt each year ? " Eighty - eight percent of them an- swered affirmatively - the highest percentage on any question in the questionnaire . The mail I receive ...
... questions I asked was : " Do you favor systematically reduc- ing the national debt each year ? " Eighty - eight percent of them an- swered affirmatively - the highest percentage on any question in the questionnaire . The mail I receive ...
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$283 billion debt 85th Congresses Accounting Act administration American appropriation billion in interest borrow Budget and Accounting budget receipts budget submitted Chairman DAWSON cheaper to pay Clare Hoffman completely retire Congressman Jim Wright Congressman Wright cost debt by paying debt payment debt retirement DEVINE dollar economic ernment estimated expenditures fact FASCELL Federal debt Federal Government Fort Worth Star-Telegram Frank Ikard go along exactly GUBSER HALEY income increase inflation interest and $283 interest rates legislation line-item veto loans obligations owe the debt pay the interest paying $495 billion present national debt President public debt reduce the debt reduce the national Representative James Representative Jim Wright Representative Wright require retire the debt revenue spending statement taxes taxpayers Texas Democrat thing Thomas Pelly tion told the House total amount U.S. Representative Uncle Sam Wichita Falls World World War II Wright and Ikard Wright's proposal
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Page 3 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Vnited States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the Bank Holding Company Act of 1947.
Page 24 - STATEMENT OF HON. JIM WRIGHT, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS Mr.
Page 14 - Congress enacted legislation which in part made an appropriation for 1 percent of the entire debt to be set apart as a sinking fund for the payment of the national debt.
Page 57 - The payment of the principal of a debt tends neither to impoverish a nation nor to retard its material development ; but, on the other hand, the maintenance of the principal and the constant payment of accruing interest tend to cripple the productive capacity of any people.
Page 2 - ... ensuing fiscal year" in paragraph (6) "and projections for the four fiscal years immediately following the ensuing fiscal year".
Page 18 - STATEMENT OF HON. ROBERT W. HEMPHILL, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA Mr. HEMPHILL. Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee...
Page 4 - ... present high price of fuel has caused them to make a more careful investigation of their pumping costs, with the result that in practically every case it has been found that the saving to be made in one year of operation with electric power will be sufficient to pay for the cost of a new installation. It is estimated that by the end of the next fiscal year the total connected pumping load will be approximately 450 horsepower, which, together with the lighting and power load in the towns where...
Page 1 - The Board shall prepare and submit to the President, and, at the same time, to the appropriate committees of Congress, an annual budget of the expenses and other items relating to the Board which shall, as revised, be included as a separate item in the budget required to be transmitted to the Congress under section 201 of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 (31 USC 11). " (k) The Board shall submit to the President, and, at the same time, to...
Page 58 - ... us, and poor enough to put us on guard. During the 154 years from 1792 through 1945 we have had ninety-three years of net surplus in our national budget and sixty-one years of net deficit. 8. Throughout our history the greatest obstacles to national financial strength, and the most acute dangers of fiscal collapse, have never been the results of inadequate or failing resources, but always consequences of weak financial policies. Increasing national wealth has always enabled us to pay down the...
Page 3 - To provide that until the national debt is retired, not less than 10 per centum of the net budget receipts of the United States for each fiscal year shall be utilized solely for reduction of the national debt...