Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-21 | Page 4 | The New Taxes

THE NEW TAXES N the government is forced to the ext exl extreme ex- ex t l of levying new taxes the machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery is created in record time and the new revenue begins to come In with a whoop Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing for the country if congress could act with equal defIniteness defIniteness def- def and dispatch in ill the matter of relieving re relieving re- re lieving unemployment Or in organizing and putting into action any other government machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery for beneficial purpose And by what twist of circumstance does the new tax law go into effect on the longest day in the year Isn't today to be long enough Without such things Its It's almost uncanny If you write a check against the money In your bank it will cost you two cents This may be a hint that you should save your alone and addIng adding adding add add- money anyhow by leaving it ing to it Wherever you go whatever you do the taxIs taxIs tax taxIs Is sure to fan follow ow Buy gasoline or tires or face powder or what-not what and the new tax will flow Into the coffers of Uncle Sam A penny here is bal bal- and a penny there and the budget Just when the people shall have become accustomed to the new taxes and it is an old story to them along will come the three-cent three stamp instead of the present two-cent two stamp and then pretty soon there will be stiff in increases increases increases in- in creases in the federal income tax It may be a good thing after all if it will hasten the day of public revolt against higher and higher taxation We are spending too much for government federal state county city