| Show the real source of revenue one sometimes hears the statement made by radicals that the wealth of the united states is in the hands of a small percentage 0 of its people the figures ot of the internal revenue department part ment of 0 the government show that over two thirds of 0 americas income from taxes is reported by persons who ho have incomes ot of irom from 1000 to 5 00 a year the combined I 1 income m 0 alco of 0 the wealthy those having incomes m 0 of from to many millions a year furnish less than one twelfth of 0 the total revenue from taxation the average income of all the inome income tax payers of the country is 13 the real financial strength of the country Is therefore in the persons persona having incomes of from 1000 to a year there are many wealthy persons in the united states perhaps too many for the general welfare the man of great wealth today usually employs his wealth in III enterprises which make for the common good extreme poverty is however detrimental to progress and a country in which there Is 13 no extreme poverty is the ideal it is a good thing that the wealth of 0 our country Is in the keeping of a majority ot or her people the incomes of 0 the rich are are at present dwarfed lily by the combined wealth of the wage earners deseret news |
