Show Tax Limit Needed Utah has become the state to approve the resolution asking that Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress call caU a constitutional convention for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of repealing the income tax amendment to the constitution constitution constitution and substituting a provision prO limiting federal taxes on income gifts or inheritances to 25 per cent Not many Americans know that the constitution can be amended by action stemming from the states The constitution constitution constitution provides that on lion the application of the Legislatures of two-thirds two of the several states Congress shall shaU call a convention for proposing amendments If another seven states therefore pass the resolution just approved by the Utah Legislature Congress will be compelled to act either by calling such a convention convention conven conven- tion Hon or as an alternative submitting such an amendment to the states itself thus making a convention unnecessary The surprising support which has developed for this 25 per cent tax limitation is indicative of a growing awareness among the people that federal federal federal fed fed- eral taxation has reached the point of piling tax upon tax until there is danger that the whole American free enterprise system will collapse under the load Certainly we have reached the point of destructive taxation taxation taxa taxa- tion lion when the rates become so heavy that Congress has to consider passing a law limiting the amount of anyone's income which may be taken by taxes to 94 per percent percent percent cent American enterprise and initiative simply cannot survive under the kind of taxat taxation on which is now applicable in most income brackets And the fact act that 25 states have passed resolutions urging Congress to call a ahalt ahalt ahalt halt is proof that law or no law constitutional constitutional constitutional amendment or or no constitutional amendment it is time for Congress to stop this ridiculous business Congress itself should have the good sense to put puta a a limit on taxation so that the man of ambition ambition ambition am am- and ingenuity would still have a financial incentive for effort and experiment ment |