Show WHO PAYS THE PORK processing TAX tile tha processing tax on r pork which to la to repay tile the government for or its bount leR to farmers tar niora who cut down on their hog productions la Is now p partially arti ally lit in effect although tile tho amount ot of the tax Is to be jalson until it amounts to two cent centi i a pound on oil live hogs by 1 vol fob I 1 some students of livestock affairs aro are pointing out tho the fact tha since the tax first drat wont went into effect the arico of clogs in the chicago market has haa gone down just juat about the amount of the tax this Is lending leading to tile lie question who pays tile the processing tax it 1 Is boll eved and intended by those who favored tho the processing tax pa plan ln of helping the farmer that tho the tax would be ba paid by tile tho consumers con of pork park products and it I 1 was estimated than when tho the ull full tax camo came into effect the price of cholko bits bit of 0 pork would be raised in III price all the way front from 20 to 40 per cent but tile the tact that the price of live hogs has declined in about tile tha amount of th wo a processing tax leads some bonie exponents of the livestock industry to believe that perhaps after ail art tile the processing tax may bo be paid by the farmer himself it this proves to bo be true it ft will wl only mean th that at the government Is money in tile me riba pants pocket end and that it jg Is being gently removed from tile loft hand pants panto pocket by sOmO somebody bOdy else only time alino can tell whether or riot not ills suspicion clon Is ID fount founded led on oil net fact by tho the time pol fa 1 1 1 1034 toils rolla around and lie he full tax Is in effect we will probably know ii ither either licis will be selling at a much lower price POW on tho the livestock markets kots of tho the country or the consumer will be plying a much higher price for his pork it Is even barely possible that both horris horns of tho the dilemma will develop for if the consumer an 1 gored by the sudden increase Inc in prices goes on a strike against pork then tile the price level of IIVO hogs Is apt to go down whether tho the i i processing tax la Is indirectly levied on tile farmer or riot not the chicago tribune recently quoted tile the opinions of soy sov oral livestock nicil men to tile the effect that the mon who sells live hogs Is being made to pay day tho the cost of the processors ces sors tax and citing tho the development of 0 hor hog prices as 1 a proof one illinois farmer lg Is quoted as all saying ny by taxing tho the hogs hoga 2 per cwt cat after fab 1 I the government it la i taking away from the farmer thru tho the hog bog market a sum equal to what he intends to anny him for a contract to reduce his crop we know that tho the consumers are supposed to be plying paying this tax but they tire are not doing so and the actions of tile the hog market since the tax was announced prove who Is really paying it the farmer Is and will keep on doing so BO when the tax li Is up to 2 the packers will buy live hogs hoga that much less I 1 from tho the farmer anner AU an iowa farmer Is quoted as believing that tile the hog market Is not able to stand tile iho processing tax imposed by tho government and lie he adds unless the processing tax Is taken off or at least hold bield down to 5 6 a hundredweight wo we will see lower prices tor for hogs hoga before long of course it the processing tax is taken oft off somebody will have 0 o reimburse relm burso tho the government for the he money paid to tile the farmers for inducing their production of hogs and that eliat somebody come body will be tho the illus arious forgotten man mr air taxpayer another illinois hog ralser raiser Is quoted as saying whoever think thinks lie ho hog ralser Is not paying the tox tax on hogs through a lower price Is fooling himself I 1 sold my prime pound butcher hogs front from purebred stock at 4 last wee week k tho top of tho the market on the lay day they were marketed these hogs hogg would have brought 5 just prior to the announcement nou no of the tax on hogs hogg and pork As an for signing tho the contracts to reduce our corn and hog production duct loti we would bo tools it K we wa ret refused used it la Is tho the only way we have of getting hack back some of our tax money that tile the packers are taking out of the hog market to pay over to the government no matter whether we sign we stand tile the expense of it 11 through our market tor for hoga it was wa admitted by the A A A that tile the tax processing plan for tori raising tile tho income of the farmer fanner was merely an experiment maybe tile tho farmer will wako up morning and learn that the expert mout cut na usual was conducted at al hla his ex expense j |