General Tax Reform (testimony from Administration and Public Witnesses) Public Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 |
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Page 3020 - Three such tests may be gleaned from our cases. First, the statute must have a secular legislative purpose; second, its principal or primary effect must be one that neither advances nor inhibits religion . . . finally, the statute must not foster 'an excessive government entanglement with religion' " Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 US 602, 91
Page 3016 - Three such tests may be gleaned from our cases. First, the statute must have a secular legislative purpose; second, its principal or primary effect must be one that neither advances nor inhibits religion * * * finally, the statute must not foster "an excessive government entanglement with religion.
Page 3058 - Baptists, Methodists, nonbelievers, Presbyterians, or members of any faith because of their faith or lack of it from receiving the benefits of public welfare legislation. (3) There is no entanglement of Government with religion in this act: there is nothing
Page 3020 - In order to determine whether the government entanglement with religion is excessive, we must examine the character and purposes of the institutions which are benefited, the nature of the aid that the State provides, and the resulting relationship between the government and the religious authority.
Page 3016 - In order to determine whether the government entanglement with religion is excessive, we must examine the character and purposes of the institutions which are benefited, the nature of the aid that the State provides, and the resulting relationship between the government and the religious authority. Lemon v. Kurtzman, supra.
Page 3011 - indicated that— to withstand the strictures of the establishment clause there must be a secular legislative purpose and a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion.
Page 2945 - The 16th amendment did not tax people. It taxed income, "income from whatever source derived without apportionment among the States and without regard to a census or an enumeration." Nothing could be clearer. It did not say, "You shall be taxed because you are single." or "You shall be taxed because you are married and both of you work.
Page 2980 - Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., is pleased to add its strong support to legislation which would extend to all unmarried individuals the full tax benefits of income splitting now enjoyed by married individuals filing joint returns, and which
Page 3109 - a reasonable allowance for the exhaustion, wear and tear (including a reasonable allowance for obsolescence)" of income producing property.
Page 2944 - I am not a lawyer. I am only a simple person who reads the Constitution and I base my entire case as to the unconstitutionality of both of these taxes on the protection and equality under the law provided in the 14th amendment: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privilege or immunities of citizens of the United