Show WHAT IS 15 THE CAUSE or EX- EX EXCESSIVE vE TAXES I Mayor Kohl tells a n few salient sallent I facts About the Common Week Week- ness of r life Which Costs Costa Us All I lone 1 Money And Tends to Lessen Interest Interest In In- terest and Efficiency Every citizen of this country should make malte it his duty to learn what he can about this problem that confronts us and then take steps to relieve the situation I Let us put the blame exactly where it belongs with belongs with ourselves because we have ignored what is going on in government circles If It we as taxpayers who so care care- Continued on Last ast Page I The Cause of Taxes Taxes' Continued from Page 1 fully manage our private affairs would only devote some of our busi business business business ness ability to public expenditures what savings would re re- sult We know nothing about the money being spent right in our community by our our city county and School Officers No relief has ever been experienced experIenced experienced through the setting up of new tax systems or through through rind finding find find- ing new sources of revenue We Ve must curtail expenditures Our officers from the city up are apt to allow a dollar here and 2000 there to be spent because it is easier to spend the other fel fel- lows low's money than to put forth the effort of saving Th They y should watch payrolls and pay only what the law allows Our assessors should be checked up on Just because some deputy assessor has a friend Is no reason this friend should not be assessed his bis full amount ere is money lost in our county county Hy by personal taxes taxes taxes tax x es being charged against real es estate estate es- es tate and then not being colle collected ted No one objects to a certain amount of taxation We Ve need government But when public spending becomes an and mania it is a distinct menace not only to business but to our civilization civilization civilization civil civil- itself We can reduce the cost of ot public public public pub pub- lic service and put taxation on a business basis whenever er we put forth the required energy energy energy en en- ergy and determination It will willbe willbe be done whenever the taxpayer can brin bring brim about a public sentiment that will overwhelm the traditional attitude of mind built u those those ose who are the beneficiaries of the present system of ot extravagance I can visualize no other undertaking undertaking under under- taking that is so worthy of the in- in of the land and which promises us such great and lasting lasting last last- ing compensation G G. G C. C KOHL |