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Show REFUGE FOR HEAVY-TAXED The high surtav rates of the tax reduction bill are meant to catch the very rich, according ro most of the gentlemen who insisted on making them high. But most of the gentlemen gentle-men who insist on keeping them high steadily rejected even,- proposal looking to a closing of the avenue of escape which the very rich have in the tax-exemption privilege. They voted against the resolution to rub-ult rub-ult a constitutional amendment which, if ratified, would have subjected sub-jected income from every sourr-o to fixation, and they voted against the amendment to the bill which, if ad-011,111, ad-011,111, would have excluded income i'. :t lved from tax-exempt bonds from the deduction which the bill allows. When the vote which men cast renders Impossible the purpose which they profess to wish to accomplish,' there is an inconsistency which ques-' tlona the sincerity either of their' vote or their profession. And since' the act is a more convincing evidence' than the word of a rational man's purpose, it Is not easy to avoid the conclusion that many of Ihose Congressmen Con-gressmen who voted for high surtaxes sur-taxes and tax exemptions were not moved by the motive which thew avowed. Morning News, Dallas Texas. |