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.
The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1970; Oshinsky, David. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joseph McCarthy. New York: Free Press, 1983.