Omnibus Water Resources Legislation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Water Resources of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, Parte2

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Página 63 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Página 98 - ... fair and equitable taking into consideration direct and indirect cost to the Government, value to the recipient, public policy or interest served, and other pertinent facts...
Página 99 - Government on a taxpayer and go solely on ability to pay, based on property or income. A fee, however, is incident to a voluntary act, eg, a request that a public agency permit an applicant to practice law or medicine or construct a house or run a broadcast station. The public agency performing those services normally may exact a fee for a grant which, presumably, bestows a benefit on the applicant, not shared by other members of society.
Página 13 - STATEMENT OF HON. WILLIAM PROXMIRE, A US SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF WISCONSIN Senator PROXMIRE. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I have not introduced the bill yet.
Página 97 - It is a tax or a duty that is prohibited : something imposed by virtue of sovereignty, not claimed in right of proprietorship. Wharfage is of the latter character.
Página 5 - TESTIMONY OF HON. STROM THURMOND, US SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA Senator Thurmond. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman...
Página 97 - But a charge for services rendered or for conveniences provided is in no sense a tax or duty. It is not a hindrance or impediment to free navigation. The prohibition to the state against the imposition of a duty of tonnage was designed to guard against local hindrances...
Página 102 - A municipal corporation owning improved wharves and other artificial means which it has provided and maintains, at its own cost, for the benefit of those engaged in commerce upon the public navigable waters of the United States...
Página 3 - SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA Senator BYRD. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Página 263 - The results of this study shall be presented to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation on or before January 1, 1994, and shall be considered by these committees as they reauthorize the surface transportation program in 1996.

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