Helvering v. Davis/Definition

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Helvering v. Davis [r]: In a suit brought by a shareholder of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston, in 1937 the court upheld the constitutionality of the compulsory tax of Old Age Insurance on the basis of the general welfare.