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To: justiceseeker93
If you haven't read Amity Shlaes The Forgotten Man, I would recommend it to you. She covers Mellon's abuse from the FDR regime with depth and concern. It would seem that his pursuit of a good and aging man did lead to his demise.

I detest FDR.

33 posted on 07/21/2011 6:53:06 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (White Hetero Able Male (WHAM) a.k.a. NOT Holder's people)
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To: Aevery_Freeman; LS; All
Speaking of Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man, I've browsed through it several times without having the time to really get down to reading it thoroughly.

There is one item in the photo glossy section that really speaks volumes about Roosevelt. It's a copy of a letter that he wrote in 1938 to his own IRS commissioner, Helvering, accompanying a check he sent to the IRS for his purported 1937 income tax payment. There were no forms accompanying the letter noted. Instead, Roosevelt - a Harvard alum and attorney - complained to Helvering that because his salary as president apparently had changed with the start of his new term in 1937, it was beyond his mathematical skills to compute how much income tax was owed. So instead he made out a check for an approximate figure which he claimed would account for at least most of what was due.

The point is that Roosevelt knew that the IRS wouldn't be going after him no matter how much he had underpaid by claiming to be arithmetically challenged. He was in effect telling his own IRS that he could pick a number and send in a check for whatever amount seemed right to him. So this is historical proof of his hypocrisy: he was very blase about paying his own taxes, while encouraging his IRS to go after prominent political opponents to humiliate them publicly.

34 posted on 07/21/2011 7:36:02 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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