Show TAX S S 'S S h strange to read the comments of the strong 4 jf F the United States on an income taxi tax In al- al ease case the charge is that it will cause men menS S flie oaths If this is true all they needed 2 b was a little bit of au flu inciting cause beK be- be K w understand human nature perjurers are arc are are like Topsy they grow grov and a r. r natural liar is going to be a liar in- in 5 a or not c t lest proposition is that if an income tax tax taxis is isit ed it must be equal every mans man's income incomeS S ced alike if he lie makes a thousand a year bethe be the same on that thousand that it is on an income of a man who makes t I or a million a year Other S equal that would be right but the truth of the last twenty five yea years edous incomes are a danger and anda a they give men the power to tomen men they become a menace r S itself and a republic is like jit 5 baa a right to protect itself k Carnegie has so much money ei lie Ite does not know how bow to spend pend it Via ao anick money his word is held ban it really is worth Now 4 Sf years s ago had been laid upon Mr had bad confiscated alt all but a i would not have so much money to toS S would I not be so a power in the ther t-S t r barthe buthe people of the country S As It is Use the government of oft t and his able to S L wW and their wives nn and anil babies would have to go out and tight that war var for Mr 11 Carnegie would keep out of or orthe the whole business So o when people talk about equal taxation they miss miS a R great deal for an ill income tax should not be finite equal taxation One On man has lIt an sit income of IiI H Ii I thousand another r of the tho tax is on the money I itself and if the man through 1111 his superior gl genius or 01 through h his superior cunning is enabled from the I wealth of tl the e earth to draw to tu himself more than thau I his hi fair proportion then he lie ought to tu be he taxed more inure hel because W unless he is a miner tinner and brings out lut of the depths new new- which wealth wealth which in fact i is a cr creation cration- t then hen if ha ho gets more than his ratio he takes it out of the pockets of his hij neighbors One Oue paper t tells lIs us UI I that the principle of an nil in income ome tax taxis is wholly different from front that of an nn inheritance tax tux It is different in this thi respect A man in th the full flood of business who is gathering to himself an abnormal fortune fortun can afford to pa pay the tax much mitch better than the heirs of such mch a man nian man who may many not have c any business capacity at all and aud may nn need the money to take care of themselves The Ie Boston Bohton Herald wants a full understanding I S Is J a revenue measure a scheme for tIme the shrinkage of swollen fortunes We Wc should say that a revenue tax is to get revenue first for the support of the thc government government gov gov- the building of its navies the paying payin of its officers cers the making of improvements needed by y the nation to add to the mone money which the nation requires in ill all nil its expenditures It is not intended for the tho I shrinkage of swollen forums fortunes but hut one of th the intentions lions should hould be to prevent the tremendous swelling offing of fortunes It ought to be bo a progressive tax very cry light on small incomes growing steadily heavier i. i in incomes incomes increase and amount to confiscation when a fortune reaches such an amount that in the hands hamis of one lD man n being added to yearly it becomes if not a menace ce a of society If men like Mr 11 Rockefeller and Mr Carnegie and the chief stockholders in great corporations generally had hat to give up for the tho service of their state their thir incomes after th they y have c reached a 3 certain amount there would not be such a struggle to gai gam gaii abnormal fortunes fortunes' antI and there certainly would be no wron wrong because it is not any more glory to a a. man to feel after he lie is rich and independent ent after his fortune just b by natural accretion amounts to more than limit he can legitimately spend that it is piling up in sums which he can can scarcely compute and which to take care of becomes s 's an au ey everlasting burd burden |