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.
Senator Joseph McCarthy charges that communists have infiltrated the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the atomic weapons industry. Although McCarthyâs accusations created a momentary controversy, they were quickly dismissed as mere sensationalism from a man whose career was rapidly slipping away. Senator McCarthy first made a name for himself in 1950 when he charged that over 200 âknown communistsâ were in the Department of State. During the next few years, he alleged that communists were in nearly every branch of the U.S. government.