Show THEOLD THE WORLD V INCOME INOME TAXES We believe in an all income tax but in z I no U such in income income income in- in come tax as is enforced in German Germany Consul lift Ifft of Annaberg said recently i i t I r do not believe that au auy portion of 1 the income of the thc Inan Who sho works for his mone often otten money e capes 3 assessment for income tax The maid servant who ho earns 5 to 7 7 p pH mouth ha has what her board an and anI looking would 1 amount to charged her in computing her income and aul even e the probable tips lips tip of the waiter are arc t p l for tho same purpose AVe Ve Wedo do donot not believe in any my tn tax on the wages of the tho pooi poor or the tips that waiters receive in their work We c do not believe in an any income tax on salaries I of any kind unless the they are a above o e what would provide provide pro pro- vide a generous living for a a man in the tho sphere that would command such a salary Our Idea of an income income income in- in come come tax is where incomes are arc speedily making men very ery rich and these we would make progressive si e A taxes tuxes and when they reached to Rockefeller or 01 Carnegie Car Cur negie e them for the good of the country at large largo One m man n can cnn readily make C five or tun ten times as much as another man This Phi should 6 be recognized and the government should be ue chary ch about Jont lev levying ing taxes upon brains But when money is accumulated so that tha t it becomes becomes- merely as w Br rolling snowball drawing to itself all that comes coine in its WH way we would slop the avalanche A statement of the income tax methods in the eit city of Berlin is given in a consular report The population is sligh slightly over Of these la rather ther more than one half are arc asses arc sable salle for income tax tux but a little less than titan one-half one of these are arc exempt from froni taxat taxation on as not possessing th the tho minimum income of annually The total number of persons on the tax li list t is The great mass of thes these have incomes from to 14 Only have incomes over oyer 14 or 11 about bout one in nineteen of those asseS assessable Hl or one in ill 11 thirty five of the entire po population on The Tho number i ithe in inthe inthe the classes having higher incomes dwindles rapidly There are arc only onh- 1616 who have an income of more than only seven forty with an income more than only four with incomes over oyer and only two with incomes over oyer A glance at the above shows s how different are the I conditions condition in the great German capital front from anything anything anything any any- thing we know of in western country The Tho masses o of the people there can enn get only about a a. dollar dol dol- lar mr a i day and find they ar are arc taxed on that And German Germany is better off than any other land in Europe except France Is it all any wonder that the ships coming I this way are crowded 1 |