Show TAX INDIVIDUAL INCOMES It is interesting learn the views of different papers on the topics of the times Here are a few more as to the income tax Atlanta Constitution Let us have no mote class l favoritism in the matter of taxes What the country needs is an individual income tax Maryland RepublicanThat an income in-come tax as proposed will be indorsed by a large majority of our voters no one but the taxed capitalists will doubt Florida TimesUnionA moderate tax on individual incomes is needed to meet the expenses of the government and make its burdens bear equally Oshkosh Wis TimesIf the income tax carries the people will get back a portion of the money Republican legislation has compelled them to contribute con-tribute to monopolies Havre de Grace RepublicanAll the income tax system asks is an honest report of each mans earnings above exemptions It does not publish the facts it does not invade the home Seattle < Wash TelegraphThe great beauty of the income tax is that under it a man pays in proportion to his ability abil-ity and not in proportion to his necessities neces-sities as he does under indirect taxes Elmira GazetteThe plea that an income in-come tax will incite to perjury is the poorest point advanced against that proposition If only such forms of taxation tax-ation are to be employed as nobody will attempt to evade the endeavor toi raise revenue might as well be abandoned aban-doned St Louis PostDIspatchIt is urged in behalf of the corporation income tax that small trust funds are invested in dividendpaying companies and that a levy upon them could be easily collected col-lected Exactly a tax on the poor man is always easily collected That is one of its merits But is that any reason rea-son why taxes on rich men which are hard to collect should be abandoned i |