Sales tax exemptions are provided by state law, primarily in Chapter 144 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, for a variety of items including, but not limited to: component parts, machinery used in the manufacture of products sold at retail, export sales, and resale.
By the time McCarthy was censured by the Senate in December 1954 â not because of Joseph Welchâs eloquent pleas but because he had turned on the Republican leadership and the Eisenhower administration, who no longer needed him â Taft had been dead sixteen months. This was the man they once called âMr. Conservative,â who is now being held up as the paragon of moderation. To paraphrase Woody Allen: a moderate Republican is a right-wing reactionary plus time. Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
Even when his career was threatened because of his vocal anti-communist speeches, McCarthy did not back down from the cause of freedom. For the courage Senator McCarthy showed in sticking to his American principles, he is today considered to be a hero by many. Joseph McCarthy was born in 1908 in a small Wisconsin town. In 1935 he earned a law degree from Marquette University and was admitted to the state bar.