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The Refutation. At the White House, Franklin Roosevelt was apparently put out by the popularity of the Ruml plan. But still he had no substitute. At his press conferences he criticized the Ruml method as partial to the rich, insisted that the Government would collect less income taxes under it than under existing law. Weary Rumlites denied this, hotly; they had spent months refuting, point by point, all the arguments the President now presented as if they were new. Where they had lost ground was in an area the President did not mention—many fiscal thinkers now believe that the Government's need is so great that double taxation (no forgiveness) should be put through at once.