| Show Counting o Tax fax Burdens Se Seen Seen As n As I Obstacles to Party Suc Success ess in n 1 4 By Mark Sullivan I Republican leaders who have haver havee 1 r e n looking g care carefully II into to th the fiances of rem remaining in power next ear ear say that their chief obstacle is lug I g to be a thing thing- over which party nor 1101 the national ad- ad this has all any control name control name name- 1 state county and city taxes the country They The claim or or instance that seriously mistaken was put upon the tIle elec- elec J o of pt the third party alty candidate a nus us Johnson for senator In Tl The e Denier cater cause o of mons mon's s election over a n n they say was not Johnsons Johnson's al- al eed d. d though not hot actual radicalism fit Jit Was vas rather discontent with local lotion throughout Minnesota pled with a racial racal issue between Swedes Swedes and Norwegians and il a arther Issue between city and coun- coun coun- coun per capita cost cost- of theto the te N-te to te teg g government which was wa in 15 had gone up to 1706 in I I 22 2 The net per capita indebted indebted- S s of the state which was 1915 had become In 1922 wall burdensome changes have haver r e o about throughout almost ev every ry ryer Per er state In Nebraska the per I Pita PHa cost In 1914 was in I 22 it H was 9 58 In Wyoming the cost was In 1914 I d 4 27 2727 27 in 1922 1322 1 I I I I Beyond U. U S S. S Control I I These increases in tit n local taxation are beyond the ver po power othe of the national government to arre affect t directly The fact is that the federal f j deral government government at at t- t Washington ashington has actually reduced expenditures its its' gr greatly atly and has even reduced Its t taxation slightly Nevertheless Nevertheless Nev Nev- erth less every very politician knows a farm on which the taxes regardless ss of federal Income taxes are above 4 i 1 an acre With wheat and other farm products at their present prices an American farmer who must pay 4 an acre in taxes is is' re realy ly not as aswell well off oft as the Russian farmer who is merely comp compelled Ue-d Ue to pay tenth one-tenth of his bis crop to the soviet sovet govern govern- merit ment Even In farming districts much I less rich than Nebraska m. m in some of ithe I Ithe the hilly and comparatively nonproductive non non-i productive farming a acres res of ot the th country it is not uncommon for the farmer to be called on to pay upward I lof of 1 an acre In taxes When to these taxes tax s there Is I a added added add add- ded d- d ed interest on the investment labor the cost of of seed and fertilizer and depreciation the literally will wUl not make ends meet It Is recognized recognized rec rec- zed that the distress of the farmer Is a thing tiling which should 1 be cured Not only must It be cured as a matter of self preservation on tho the part of the party If It One Last bast Page MOUNTING TAX rAX BURDENS From Page One it is to win wn next year quite aside from expediency it should be cured for the general good of the nation f r Ens Easy as ns Subsidy Out of consideration of this thiS' problem problem problem lem has come a deep-cutting deep proposal proposal proposal pro pro- that all taxes whatever should I be lifted from tIle farms that the cost east of and their upkeep upkeep upkeep up- up up up- keep and even the cost ot of local schools should be narg d against general state taxation other than on farms farms' To those who say that this is as economically unsound as some of oC th the panaceas as proposes proposed on behalf of the farmers Carmels the answer r is made that we can just as readily give this extraordinary ary aid to the farmers as we could give subsidy a to shipping or tariff pro protection to Infant indus indus- tries The argument Is that if manufacturing manufacturing turing was a a- generation ago an In Infant infant infant in- in fant industry and therefore to be protected arbitrarily so is s s farming today that when election comes the average voter will tend to Ignore the fact th that t t the federal government has reduced reduced its taxation and will vote his general feeling of resentment against the fact tI that at the taxes he must pay somebody are making him uncomfortable About the only thing the national managers of the Republican party can think of oc is to attempt an all edu educational atonal campaign directed toward persuading voters and governors alike to slowdown slow slow do on expendi tures |
