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Show njfi.Ph7pr JP SIMPLIFYING THE TAX BLOW The senate finance committee recently re-cently voted for the Simplified Chart system for helping the public determine deter-mine its income tax. It now seems certain that the Do-It-Without-The-Dizzy -Spell idea will become law and that the new arrivals within the income in-come tax classifications will almost be admitted on a Pay-As-You-Enter system. Secretary Morgenthau says that with the rank and file of taxpayers "it ain't the money; it's the confusion." con-fusion." He contends that a man in the lower brackets should be able to go to a post office, glance at a chart and find out what he owes Uncle Sam without going nuts. When the income tax was limited to the Upper Brackets and only took in a small proportion of the people, it was all right to let them suffer. There seemed no reason why they shouldn't be given the works, up to and including the headache, the spots before the eyes, the night- sweats, the nervous breakdowns and the mad call for lawyers. But the Every-Man-An-Einsteln policy is to be dropped now that the income tax laws have been eased so that anybody can get in. Uncle Sam knows that if the rank and file of his citizens were ever asked to go through all that trouble making out an income tax blank, there would be what Willie Howard calls a "re-wolt." Either that or more mental collapses than our Institutions In-stitutions could handle. Hence the "Not A Headache In A Carload" type of tax collection. It is all right as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. We think the tax blank should be made prettier. And carry a page of fun-niei. fun-niei. We submit the following extra suggestions sug-gestions for making tax paying more ainless: 1. Make the tax blanks prettier nd include a page of funnies. io-7 2. Preface each blank with the words "Don't Bother Reading This. See Your Postmaster." 3. Inclose postage for return. 4. Have the mailman leave each blank with an apology and explain that it's just too bad. 5. Forbid lengthy discussion of the tax blank in the home. Let the husband say, "I guess I'll run down to the post office and have my income in-come tax apprehensions attended to," and let the wife limit her comment com-ment to "Okay. I hope it's nothing serious." 6. Have the post office chart printed in colors and throw In a couple of movie shorts in the corridor. cor-ridor. 7. Require the postmasters to serve hot coffee and sandwiches. Do You Remember-Away Remember-Away back when the ultimatum came first and the attack second? "Japan is proceeding with the reconstruction re-construction of the Chinese continent with the full co-operation of China. Churchill's charge that Japan Is encroaching en-croaching upon the Chinese people is wholly groundless." Japanese spokesman. And then again, the world doesn't seem to understand that those alleged al-leged bombs are really flower pots. PORTRAIT OF A MAYOR Into an airplane Out of it quickl Into another With shovel and pickl Off to a concert. Then zip! to a spot To christen a hangar, A park or all-hot! Whisk! To some city To dig a big hole, Run a steamshovel Or help to mine coal! This way and that way With gusto and Joy "Flash" Fiorello." The Dynamo Boy I "Hank Greenberg Madt Corporal." Cor-poral." Headline. The Hanks are coming! A man named Low has been named an official of the New York gas shortage crisis. Elmer Twitchcll just couldn't resist re-sist the temptation. He walked up to an auto bearing an "I Don't Waste Gas" sticker and scribbled on it "Wanna bet?" Ima Dodo says she isn't worried about America being drawn into the war for the next month or to. "It couldn't go in," she explains, "until "un-til after the world series." |