Show THE TRUTH ABOUT TAXATION the movement is fan n for deduc ed taxation right down the line from national government to school district I 1 in commenting oi on fight of in destries dus tries in the sta teof washing ton to secure a genral tax tion a deputy assessor thorough ly familiar with the S situation and who is in accord with the idea of reducing government expense says in our county it is not taxa tion any more but is getting to be conf confiscation is cation but what is a poor assessor going to do when we elect a legislature who think it is their blundon duty to get an appropriation for their dist brict in order to get back in office and each state institution sends its lobby to the legislature to obtain all they can for their pet institution when the legisla ture gets through passing the pie around thep then the state officers have to make the levy to meet it and so on down to county af fairs each district will vote bonds for some needed or image pary nary project then when tax pay ing time comes they blame the assessor for high taxes when as a matter of facts fact it is the vot ers era themselves who are arc to 10 blame if they will elect a Leiis legislature lature giving them to understand that if they want to get back again to put a soft pedal on all ampro pria ions such as school and roads until we get caught up and not try to outdo he older states then taxes will be reduced we are busting ene cne taxpayers by trying to make a playground ot the west for the rest of the country to come and have a good time in the summer the same thing prevails in the county eve urges roads to their bartic ular place and the consequence is that the commission has to levy all the law will let them in order to get back in again the same with the schools each dis brict wants to have a better school than its and go the limit I 1 knew of one timber district that has hashe he nicest school building and best bast equipped of any school in thie the towns in fact they have everything that money can buy they have less than vu oo pupils with I 1 i three teachers the principal getting a month 1 I 1 heir valuation for this year is with a school levy of mills and not a far mer has enough personal prop erty to be on the tax roll while bic t beti ool hero anich built a new ew school house this j ear and maintains thirteen tea chers aliers has only an 18 mill levy on a valuation of this plain statement of facts applies with equal force to practically every western state it is up to the people to say aay whether they will wall have lax reduction or kurtti er tax expansion |