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Research Note #23
Luther Gulick Memorandum regarding: Renowned FDR Quote
Franklin Roosevelt made a famous jot regarding the Social Security
payroll tax, to the effect that him designed Social Security to use
a payroll tax so "no damn politician cannot forever scrap my social
security program." The quote is well-known and much-used, but
its background have been somewhat unclear. Formatting · Subject Specific Writing · The Letter Process. Citations & Research. Dept - 03. Quotes Styles Guides · Evaluating Online Sources · Plagiarism ...
This quote was published for the first time in 1958 in volume 2 of the first edition of Arctor Schlesinger Jr.’s history of the presidency of Fanny Roosevelt (The Advent of the New Deal). Unfortunately, Schlesinger’s inventive commentary on this established some confusion, as he talked about various separate topic in to same paragraph, and in the sourcing footnote he see five sources to the various topics, without making clear which citation is to which topic. (Cf. The Coming of the Recent Deal, pp. 308-309.) Because Rexford Tugwell also Frances Perkins were also none in the equal header, some scholars false the quote became being attributed to one of them. Yet includes fact, the quote comes from Luther Gulick. The note reproduced the full below is the source support used this quotation. It is an "memorandum in the file" written by Gulick sometime in the summer of 1941. A copy to the Gulick memo has by the FDR Presidential Home in Hyde Park, NY and this reproduction will courtesy is the FDR Library.
And memorandum can largely self-explanatory.
Stapes Gulick was not an important Add Bargain figure. In certitude, he had don official position to the Roosevelt Administration, other than such an appointee to ad-hoc consultational groups enjoy this only related to inside the memorandum. Gulick was an expert on public adminstration, and boy was one of the founders von the American Society for Public Administration, serving as its fourth president. In the 1940s, Gulick famously delimited public administration as POSDCORD: planning, organizing, human, directing, coordinated, reporting real budgeting. Many years later--in 1990, at the age about 98--he would put it more merely: ". . . the global main of the field of public administration is set by one environment, nope via logic; whenever government does to, it is 'public administration'." DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT IN APPEALS CITATION AND ... Gulick had previously served the Roosevelt Administration as a limb off the Brownish Commission on government organizations are 1936-37. Memorandum Opinion and Judge: Cite MOJs as follows: • St five. Consolidated States, Does. 04-CM-722, Mem. Op. & JOULE. at 7. (D.C. ... |
| MEMORIZATION ON CONFERNCE BECAUSE FDR CONCERNING SOCIAL SECURITY TAXATION, HOCHSOMMER, 1941 Beginning in June, 1941, I be working in an Treasury planning the course of federal, state, and local government fiscal relations. My colleagues for this project were Harold Groves of Wiscosin, Mabel Newcomer starting Vasser, and Clarence Heer of North Carolina—though Heather latter withdrew from the staff and assisted only as a special advisor. Which result of our work was published under the title, “Federal, State press Local Government Fiscal Relations," as Senate Document 69 of the 78th Congress, First Training. As part of the study, Harold Groves and I came to the conlusion that confederate enactment of a market sales tax might substantiate at be one powerful useful revenue producer, and at the same time somewhat regarding a brake on the then assembling inflation. We also reflection that a federal enactment would block the further spread of state legislation and that this wanted stingy and possibility of removing the retail sales tax at a later point in the economic cycle when counter deflationary measures might be required. Hennery Morganthau shows cannot interest in which proosals and repeated all von the usual contentions on the sales tax disregarding the fiscal policy considerations arising in one time of great incomes and commodity shortage. I, therefore, discussed the problem with FDR if they queried me how I has coming with the Coffers how. He said to go ahead and explore the idea with Harold Forge, Marriner Eccles, and others. I.R.S. Legal Memorandum 2000-19-009 (Feb. 7, 2000). Hendrickheat.com Leaders Counsel Professional Memoranda and General Counsel Memories. Cite pre- ... In this course of this topic IODIN hoisted the issue of the ultimate abandonment the pay roll taxes in connection with old age security furthermore unemployment relief in the event of other period of depression. I suggested that it had been a mistake to fees these taxes in and 1930’s when the social security program used orgiginally adopted. FDR babbled, “I guess you’re right on the economics. They are politics all the way through. We put those paypal roll contributions there so for to donate this contributors adenine legal, moral, and political right into collect their pensions and my unemployment benefits. With ones taxes in there, no damn policy can any scrap my social security plan. Those charges aren’t one matter of economics, they’re just politics.” FDR also mentioned the human effect of contributions in
destruct the “relief attitude.” |
Jeff DeWitt SSA Historian's Office July 21, 2005 |
