Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-08-02 | Page 7 | Snoopers

I 1 Snoopers I IBy i By DR FRANK CRANE Much has been s said d lately In the public press about snoopers This means people who are are Inv Investigating violators violators viola viola- tors of the prohibition amendment We Ve have other snoopers however who are Just Justas justa a as bothersome and much more Injurious to busi busi- ness They are the snoopers who wl uno come around an anil 11 Investigate a mans man's or a concerns concern's affairs for tor tho I Income tax The Income tax Implies snooping It depends de I for Its enforcement at the last upon a number of I legally authorized spies These spies make It a business to Investigate every ones one's books bools s an and and papers and It Is rumored I about some of t them that they are re not always everything that might be asked ed of them Unfortunately they are human and a certain portion of ot ott t them em look for lor a bonus pr present Thus the business business busi busi- ness man Is hampered In hl his affairs as he knows that his sworn statement about his Ms Income In the first place Is not going to be ac accepted by the government gov gov- I IThe l I The Income tax was a war m measure asure and with I the cessation of the war It Jt should have been aban aban- It Is Js not a proper proper tax and one upon which which- the United States not not- depend for Its support even In part Many 1 other ways of taxation such as the sales sais tax ta and the land tax have more to tc be said sad In their favor The In Income ome tax was socialistic or communistic In its origin and It Is oppressive In its Us continuance e. e It is a a part of the plan pian of ot parties parties' to kill Idl the goose that lays the golden egg For nil all the profits In this country arise from success successful business business busi busi- ness men and those business business' men should be encouraged encouraged en en- n find And not hampered In their prosperity It Is bad enough to have people snooping about and smelling smelling- your breath to detect dett whether hether or not you are using liquor But it Is far more detrimental to business to have other persons about to see how much money you have made and nd how ho you have made It Copyright 1926 1026 by McClure Newspaper r Syndicate