Show The Poor Must Pay One of the gravest indictments of the Congress which has just ad- ad adjourned adjourned is its refusal even to think about our taxi mess wrt- wrt es John T Flynn in a syndicated article This responsibility be- be belongs belongs longs to no special party both great parties ran awa away front from the subject A politician is more frightened frightened by taxation than by an any other form of menace Further on in his article Mr Flynn points to the ridiculous fallacy of the soak the rich policy of taxation This may be good bait for uninformed voters but as an economic to quote Mr Flynn again It is the saddest of all illusions During the last fical year ear Fed Fed- Federal Federal eral state and local taxes collect collect- collected collected ed in the United States amounted to If every person who had an income of a year ear Or more had been taxed to the limit loo per collections cent would have reached less than 4 third one of the tax load And if f t the government had confiscated per cent of the conics comes of all persons earning 5 a year or more more-a sum which is certainly a far cr cry from from riches riches- collections would have reached about more than less than the the- amount necessary to pa pay our extortionate tax bill The taxpayer who provides the bulk of tax funds in this Country whether he knows it or not is the thc average small salaried worker worker- the man or woman earning 20 30 or 40 a week taxes are the principal support of all units of taxes government taxes which are hidden in the cost of food clothing tobacco amusements gasoline beauty preparations and everything we use The Twentieth Century Fund has found that a 1000 wa wage e earner in New York pays in taxes a 2000 salary worker a a year can and a executive about Ve are not now paying any any- anywhere anywhere where near enough taxes to meet II present government go expenditures let alone reducing our nearly 40 Federal debt Only the poor man can furnish the tax there money arent aren't enough rich men if you t take ke all they the have |