Show lavt i it QUESTIONS A beiles of art lei c ty by advanced think rs f A BADLY TAXED TOWN there them is ii ro reed to give the ilam iiara of tile lie town its hl doiy vf if taxation diff is 19 but bill lix lii rt florid that ct cf binny DY other places plu ps goos cloo well located it has natural advantages and under conditions 01 will midi as it might enjoy it would coll til ly double its business annually it has ij adril ly perfect climate line shipping facility e bot both it by water rivers ami abiol v altu and by railroad coal iron jimr idine rock but building lit and other L tone stolle tricks of v ol of all 11 kinds aud and to the productions of a soll soil and ami chil late ill nuo aro accessible nil all the productions cf tile tropics tio A place so situated to prow grow ill ili wealth and population yet tile the facin condition of if things thing prevails as exists all over the ho civilized v orld today and front from tho the same cause a bod bad of talati taxation oll tax upon tax stu situated itce it i a tate state whose indebtedness besoiu t bearing is a aud lid increasing boic pach each ye ir tho the towns aliue of winch is 19 added to its own local end and county cruelty tax that alono alone ocla bo be a burden largo enough to weigh dowil nil enterprises lu in addition to thi however thele I 1 ib r port tax aud and the various taxes aad as follows federal stat co coni boully ully ily city old port tax rud and special which is il figured oil a percent percentage l gg of all tile othel taxes lu in addition to tho the above is inquired of one loin loins business ii a I 1 location tax or license the internal revenue taxes requited of certain lines of business arld and so far as possible shifted by them on to consumers also their pro tariff taxes shifted oil to consumers as far as possible aud and several small taxes such as a water raus rates and street functions that thai the municipal ity now dundei takes to pei form and for which it should be held good are either cither not doue done at all or so poorly done that many business houses and private residences residence are obliged to bapple ment them with watchmen street cleaning contributions to public institutions charitable together with calls for donations in aid of various EO called public improvements the hardens ot of the Sy system stein to soma borne renders readers there may cecin to be an all objection to including many of tho the above items in the list of taxes tases but they are taxes all the same earno and are 1 a I burden w which if ich must tie be borne by tile the community A just system of taxation would provide for all the above null and many other items also and yet be more easily borne than the pres present crit taxes A largo large number of officials are required lequir cd now to do the moll vi aik oik as ag it is done there being title separ separate a to aud and distinct offices aud and sets of officers the state slate and county the city and the special if to these are added tile the duties rj of tile the county commission cis when engaged on tax busine business the state auditor and his clerks the county boards of equalization here county commis cominis bl otters do not do this work and the state board of equalization the last legislature passed art an act creating additional officers to aid tax assessor in ili 1 assessing I property we have b ve an all army of if officials bookstand books book sand and stationery all and d all work working ilg at a total cost coat which V reduces the net amount of the money taken front from the taxpayer to tile tho smallest percentage before it reaches the public treasury no sadie bane business man would or could conduct a business where the expense was buch a large percentage of the total income inequality of nag N ko 0 note has yet been made of t tho he inequality ct cf ae upon property for that is common to all places it is enough colough to say that there are cases where banks hold millions of dollars worth of taxable bonds and yet in tho the whole county there is returned for taxation less than worth personal property in general is inequitably returned and vacant land is far below its galket value when listed state county and town in debt end and going deeper the tendency is to increase the late of taxation to keep L eap the amount I 1 of taxes do down wn to what the property owner has bein been pay lug results in lower returns to the astoor ke toor or bac each h y year car and this in time causes cause 0 it the legislature to increase the rate A town tow fighting itself one instance of local taxat taxation on A concern employing hundred di 0 of f hands was so BO heavily taxed as ag to foice its removal beyond tiro the city limits limit the tily council then extended its limits so as to take tile the company in wit without hont however giving them the benc lits of liy by ill ant department and po lice nd they then moved all their 30 miles away thus taking liun hun elicah decd of un irom froin tile the town all of lhnn hont ll 11 ei e reli teis of housch s aud and eon coil e on rumors of goods kosct to ct suh ili action off in in ill a good light it 1 in well to iolite ill that it lor for months business busi men has hag bt bi en it whetting funds lit in wake make lip ill a dou don tim to patties aho vho hu would tic cc and operate all al which I 1 it waa hoped ho ped would call moro more biti business to thi the town the TC asked tia for by the 7 ir q haf 1 f lt projectors of tho cute pi ise is equal to r what it t ito tale would lie be upon ill the property timing tn ten years with su such ch it system enit ol 01 if taxation is ig it reason to iuppo i ilo that the alie town can iu ill crease ill and population as it would under a ahre lie re neither ii ilor ibor nor labor were taxed and the he be lajser from froin it single tax assessed na erscil upon apoll the annual rental valno ill of the land alone aloin iquiel enquiring I 1 the ile fw S t iloni br Q f off iclal ciali to disesa aud and collet collect the ohp tax all aud d it at tile the least cost to tile the ta tispa payers cri EDIVA 10 brincy |