Show CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS By Dy L L. A A. A Hollenbeck The last legislature proposed three now new constitutional nal iu to tob tobe tobe b be voted on at the coming election r Two yO of bf e these are proposed to raise more taxes and probably they both bolh should b be defeated ed The tax comm commission commis is- is sion which was also created last session for the time purpose of devising ways and means to raise more taxes is banking on the people voting in favor Caval of the income ta tax amend amendment this fall all TIte They want the p people ople to pay a property tax and then If they make a thousand dollars or more more they are to lo pay a tax lax on that income after they have already paid a tax on the property from which that income came They Ther are even proposing that every citizen of the state stale shall file ale a report of his income and If his income is too low to be taxed then he must pay a dollar to file his report sh showing showing show show- wing w- w ing that he lie Is not subject to an In Income Income income In- In come tax and this will require a alot alot alot lot of tax lax agents and inquisitors and suits suils at law to force orce the people to lo pay more taxes and to compel them to report Mr 1 Bullock a Harvard expert is telling the tax lax commission all about ti He is a college expert and supposedly a wise man Probably Probably Probably Proba Proba- bly is but his wisdom seems to heto he be beto heto to discover ways and means to increase In Increase In- In cre crease crease se the taxes Have Haye you looked at the laws of the legislature for Cor the thelast thelast thelast last session and if so did you find fine where they repealed a single law of any kind Probably the former legislature legislature legislature leg leg- was as shortsighted as th that t too But Dut there was a law or two that lint the time necessity for repeal was waso wase o e great greal that it smelled to nigh heave C and aud was forcibly brou nt to lo the attention attention at- at of at the legislature and t refused refused re fused to repeal it ft The is were intent on passing more legislation They created tin nh tax tae commission law and appropriated I for the purpose of or i ways and means to lo increase the taxes The Harvard expert Prof Bullock Dullock has hns been there talking it over oyer with the commission he nhe people people peo peo- pIe are tired of or more hoards boards anal here is a scheme to get more moio machinery machinery ma ma- chinery in the shape of or boar boards s to lo pay par salaries to lo after the ople aro hoodwinked Into inlo passing th the proposed propos propos- ed constitutional T Tire The e other oilier d lay day they and nad a i. up In Wyoming John WHay W W. Hay was running against Governor Carey for Cor the nomination for govern govern govern- or Both Bolh were candidates on i the Republican primary ticket tRay Hay was running on a ticket for simpli simplified fied fled government and against b L and he won fi lover ver Governor Go Carey They are aru having the same trouble with 1 Ii Wyoming that we are having u III Utah and the same grief Ih This The C tax eaters and theorists are never satis satisfied salis- salis fled fied until they get a knockout Some Somo people seem to lo think that if these e theories come from a professional professional profession 1 expert from fromm H Harvard college then Uen It ItIs Itis itis is beyond criticism Possibly y this expert can collect this extra J money oney from flom the taxpayers from the sills o to graciously lr and amid that it il will be a pleasure to lo pay a a half million dollars more moro on top of of or the tho taxes that they already alread cannot canno pay Karl Marx wrote three large books to prove his views of econ economics enunciated principally n Me tle surplus surplus value theory theon and he was er entirely wrong in his fundamentals a and d yet yel he is more famous than this hits expert f fhe from rom Harvard and it dawned upon this expert that he lie too may maL be wrong as he lie certainly Is in iu some of his theor ta Instead I oi of creating a board to devise ways ways nn and means to collect more moio taxes front from the people the legislature might have created a board hoard to to devise ways was an and means to lo cut down expenses and and taxes and still have enough money to lo properly run a good state government government government govern govern- ment ment and amid and protect the s schools and roads They never thought of that they were intent on figuring to meet the propaganda of the time various high salaried and expensive boards The fhe people be damned said Vant Van- Van t |