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Show of them had funeral expenses to pay. Doctor bills have mounted up to where many families have been plunged into debt, but the head of the house will not be permitted to deduct from his taxable income the $100 he paid for doctors and medicines or the $500 he paid for hospital fees and operations because of illness ill-ness in his family. This should be changed a man should not have to pay taxes on "losses" incident to sickness and death in his household. Editorial SHOULD THERE BE FAVORITISM? Business men with state and national organizations and plen-ty plen-ty of money to back up their . "political influence" are permit-'. permit-'. ted to make all kinds of reduc-. reduc-. tions from their revenues before be-fore paying their Federal income in-come taxes. They have to pay no taxes on bad bills and legitimate legiti-mate losses. The common ordinary or-dinary man. gets no such favor The income tax report must be made out between now and the 15th of March. Thousands of persons had illness in their families fam-ilies during the last year. Many |