| Show lilt IMIlllIIAMJh AX JUtS110 Tbe supreme court of California Ins decided that an Inheritance tax Is I ut constitutional because II Is au extra tax A abort time ago tho supreme cJurl Illinois held It lo bo constitutional constitu-tional feuntylvaulit has decleJ 10 assess an Inheritance tax In that State nod although Ibo last Utah Legislature rtjeoej a proposition 01 that kind the Idea Is likely to come up again with a possibility of adoption adop-tion It being admitted that tn many respects the poor are taxed too heavily In troportlon to the rich It Is Interesting to note the summing up of James A Riberls controller ot the state of New York who Is I an adopt on the Inheritance tax question He shows how a vast amount of personal property In the hands ol the wealthy escapes taxation In the absence of on Icutltance lox and taking Ibo case ol New York be figures out aa follows alter aeduatlng the exempted government govern-ment and refunding banjo ot cities the already taxed stocks of corpora lion real estate mortgg lc1 There la atlll left f23ICOO910 < ol nn taxed personal properly o considerably more then the entire assessed N aluo of all New Yorks real estate and personal properly wblch aceordlolt 10 every Erlnciplo of justice and fairness ought too to-o taxed The burden ol taxation oil real estate Is therefore at least double what ii It lr dr t H should be and a large portion of this burden falls upon our farmers our cbnln who own their own home and our men 01 moderate means Ia this right or Is It good publIc pollcyT |
