Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-10 | Page 20 | Sen. Smoot's War Tax Bill Short, Simple, Much-Needed Measure, Leslie's Asserts

Sen Smoots Smoot's War T Tax ax x Bill Short Simple e M Needed Much uch-N uch eed ed Measure Leslie's Asserts U Utahn's uz ta s Proposed Law Lalu Eliminates mates Obscurity and Dis- Dis of Present Statute ITI Weekly Declares Praises Authors Author's Ster ling hug Common Sense The following extract Is from Le Lealie's LesIc's Lea Les- lies Ics Weekly editorial page of or January 26 6 G 1918 HItS Incredible That vl vigorous Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic supporter of President Wilson Wil Vil 11 Ron son the tho Now New York World de denounces de- de flounces the war tax i law w passed pasted at atthe atthe the special session as a piece of or orla bad la work It says th that t a law that thai cannot be he un understood Is fundamentally fundamentally fun fun- wrong There Is no norea rea reason meason on why a n. tax of ot an anY kind should bo be a a. matter of ot gue guesswork Nobody Is res resisting is tins tins- war taxes but they ought to be bo plainly as well as ns fair fairly written In tho the fewest and simplest wor words s. s Our contemporary calls attention attention atten atten- tion to the bill Introduced uce b- b by Senator Senator Sen Sea ator Smoot of ot Utah and speaks of It as ns a l carefully prepared bill to amend anti and simplify the Income and andl l' l excess pro profits Its tax sections of ot tho time war ar revenue ue act This is exactly what tho the Smoot hill bill Is The able and nd experienced senator senator sena sean tor br from Utah host sterling common common cornmon com corn mon sense has won tho admiration of all who have watched his record record rec rec- ord realizes that we must mud not only fight this war now but that W we must also make provision to pa pay pa for tOI It either cither now or heren hereafter and to th that t end cad our In Industries must bo be kept bUR busy our workmen employed and the payrolls maintained This cannot be done llono If capital Is taxed to death and driven from the field Capital can n live while the worker may mav starve star So Senator r Smoot has Intro Introduced uceda a simple measure recasting recasting- and simplifying the tIme Income and amud W war I profits taxes to make malee them understandable under under- to tho the average I c citizen and to remove the time Injustices and nl the time discriminations which both the time New York World and the New York lOIk Times concede exist in the thc present act The Smoot bill pro l provides s a taxing system Estem that any Rny ordinary business businessman s man can understand Iver Every corporation corporation cor cor- is taxed upon tho the same annie basis and anti tho the r revenue under tho the Smoot bill bili from the corporation tax will be inci incle increased eased b by over that provided by the present pres pres- ent law Considering that the crudities crudi ties tics of or the existing law arc are such that tho time government go has been obliged to appoint a commission to interpret its con conditions It seems incredible that th the tho short an and simple bill of Senator Smoot cannot have smooth sailing That ho Ime Is a Republican Republican Re- Re publican ought not to militate against ns his measure for fOl wo we arc are constantly assured from Washington Washing Washing- ton that this must be a nonpartisan nonpar- nonpar tI an war var