| Show WORKING THE INCOME thomas 0 shearman Bh earman covers three columns of the new york world with nonpareil in proving the beauties and excellence of an income tax for the purpose of revenue and closes by showing beyond peradventure that all experiments peri ments in that line in europe or america have turned out to be a pr premium nalum on fraud and perjury on the one hand band and a tax upon honesty on the other the opponents of an income tax are not as a rule to be found among men man who ha have v 0 the large incomes in the nature of the case one would expect these to be the first objectors the fact to is that between a direct property tax and a tax upon not net proceeds the interest of the moneyed man with a disposition to avade taxation lies with the latter iatter method when fraud is the game to smother the entire proceeds of the rich est railroad corporation in the country I 1 with a little fictitious Is bookkeeping i n g i is a a slight matter to an expert in that a t bu beai si ness but when it moraes to burying the railroad tor for assessment purposes it to is not so easily acco accomplished 14 the world has struggled hard and faithfully with its pet pec tax theory it if would be very sad for nothing to come of I 1 its is endeavors I 1 if f it had devoted a small P portion of those efforts upon an investigation of the much more logical and apparently practicable acreage tax it A be already enjoying a reward for ige ica pains to go on mumbling mu over an exploded whim with a really sensible idea covering the same ground within call seems a great waste of opportunities J |
