Show A Novel Method of Taxation j I I Almost the first difficulty that besets a I I people trying to govern for themselves is the question of revenue Where is the I i i I money to come from Taxes the bugbear I I of all nations also puzzle the Swiss His method of raising them in some of the cantons can-tons is alike interesting and novel No official of-ficial assessment is made of property Blanks are distributed to every house to be filled in by its occupants The system is known as the progressive tax scale A who owns 4000 worth of property pays taxes on only half of it B who owns J25000 worth pays taxes on eighttenths of It while C with his 100000 worth of property prop-erty pays taxes on the whole The result Is that C pays not proportional twenty five times the amount of As taxes but fifty times us much The income tax is managed after similar fashion The rich nay out of all urooortion to the nnarcr nl I 1 r > I es They probably would not change places with the poor however even to save what they decry as unjust taxation The plan is not always a popular one Leaving every man to assess himself has the disadvantage that the rich with stocks and bonds sometimes do not make return of them When a rich Swiss dies the gov ernmentcontrolpf his estate quickly makes Imends for all his past misdeeds in the way of assessments andevery penny of taxes held back is now deducted together with compound interest and flnesS H M Bycrs in Harpers I |