Show NEW NEWA A A A TAX PLAN STUDIED WASHINGTON Jan 20 UP iP- iP With leaders on on Capitol hill giving Increasing attention to the proposal for or reenacting the tho A A As A's processIng processing process- process Ing ng taxes retroactively the Idea was being serI seriously studied from a legal egal stan today by the justice department First advanced by Senator Bankead Bankhead Bankhead Bank- Bank head ead D. D Ala the proposal has taken aken strong hold as asa asa a means to prevent the government from rom losing tho the of taxes levied under the dead dea A A A. A But Jut leaders were awaiting the advice advice advice ad ad- vice of the governments government's lawyers before moving Edward A. A ONeal president of the he American Farm Bureau federation federa i ion tion said today his organization would push for legislation to block processors from obtaining the taxes He Jo said he already had conferred with members of the house ways and means committee ONeal asserted hundreds of oC re requests requests requests re- re quests have come to him from farmers and business men to prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent processors who passed the tax on to the consumers and producers from rom making a raid on the treasury treas treas- ury We Ve feel It Is within the rights of ot this organization to deeply re resent resent resent re- re sent the un-American un attitude of ot the he processor groups who now may raid the treasury and claim as their own millions if not billions of oC dollars dollars dol- dol lars ars that have been paid in good faith by the citizens he said For corporations to contend through highly paid legal counse counsel and through clever bookkeeping that hat we tho the consumers did not pay the taxes is ludicrous No less a aDerson person Derson than former President Hoover Hoover Hoover Hoo Hoo- ver in an address delivered January January January Janu Janu- ary 16 at Lincoln Neb pointed ou out that hat taxes are always passed on to the consumer |