Show TAXES BY ANY NAME taxes by any other name ere a re juat as hard to bar tar b ar buys says the world herald i in corn com on the widely circulated statement that chanute kansas which own owns and operates a munt cipal electric system is a tax t lesa w cit city r the editorial further tresses stresses the fact that instead of levying a direct property tax to pay the cost of municipal government the commissioners have concealed that cost by including it in the charges to the tile users of city ow owned n ed electric light and cai gas and water ser vice the inequitable manner marner of distributing the tax burden under this method of operation Is clear ly pointed out in these words A A parcel of chanute property pr owned outside the city gets all the benefits of city protection im pro and unearned increment and pays not a penny in return the chanute chute citizen it all for him the nonresident non resident property owner and then boasts that his la is a it city the main point Is that aldax free ta toun n Is 13 in no sense an I 1 ex pense free freel town the expense of city government go on whether paid in the form of taxes axes profits from the municipal plant or in seme other manner it Is simp ly a matter of Account accounting ina the chances for increased cost oost an and inefficiency in municipal government are multiplied when there s ro PO segregation of this expense and the citizens pay just the game same furthermore the removal from the tax rolls of the property of tho the utility companies compan let increases the burden of city government expense on all other taxpayer taxpayers |