Show I This Week In oo D. D C. C Washington on D D. C. C The senate enate surprised the ine hatton when with only live days OL or it parsed tue gigantic tax bill biU which is expected expected to bung bring in around around nl nine nine on r J is fn- fn r fn i venue e cv ue to tl the e government Tae Dill cHI was then sent cent to conference II wame le senate and ll house hous lU h immediately went to worst worK to tu au pie t h. h. h a compromise compro compro- wise mise UlI o between the thu house e and und seriate senate versions or of what i ou ur l ly-ij ly iJ tuxes should hould be The senate tax kill Wll spent so long longIn In ln committee before belore it was finally brought to the floor of ot the senate and it Involved so so many wany situ ial issues that it was exp expected to spend several weeks In the tho senate before a a. final vote was taken Tho The Tact lat that tIle the senators lu rushed It through quickly Indicates that even with election less leis es than a month off the tIle majority of or them may have havo decided tuat political consideration must be relegated to tu the Jack buck ground The chief difference between the house hoube and senate version of tho tax bill Is that the tho senate measure calls for a Victory tax above and separate from front all aU other taxes which would consist of a n. payment of G 6 j per por cent on au all salaries and wages of a year car or nt more That means that a man inan earning tho the minimum 6 1 or 12 a week toek would have havo to pay par a tax of or A man earning a year would have havo to pay pays a tax of or Victory tax plus piUS regular taxes Whether the house would agree to this large addition to the tax was considered somewhat doubtful although It Is generally lly agreed 1 that 1 If tf this tax doesn't pass passa a n sales tax will bo be necessary and either cither type of tax would force Corco a u. contribution b by those who are earn earnIng Ing incomes As an amendment to the tax tux bill the senate approved tho the freezing of social security payments at 1 per cent instead of or Increasing the tho social security levy to 4 1 1 per pur cent as qS requested by tho the President Although the new tax bill if tr passed will practically dominate th tho i possibility oC of an any man retaining retain retain- retaining ing inS over a n year ear and wilt mean that families of or even moderato moderate ato ate Incomes will pay up to 25 per percent percent cent of ot their total earnings in tax Secretary ha has already indicated that large additional taxes will be bc requested as soon as the present tax measure becomes raw law law one flue of or the lending leading subjects of or debate here heio this week eek ana and one Due that Is probably more complicated at- at ed cd than any which has faced 1 tile tho Government so far tar Is the tho problem Q of aCting dl man mun power to keep our war industries going a at top speed Continued ou on last Jut page paga t This This This' W Week k In 1 Washington D. 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C Continued from page one I 1 aud and at the tho s same mo time supply labor to farmers and to necessary home bonne Industries The difficult problem II I II I of ot keeping thousands of small bus bUB tresses alive allye In this country Is al alco also al- al so co Included in time the program 1 If Ie It comes conies to tu u tl point of or actually actual actual- ly Grafting all available man power power pow pow- pow pow-I er cr and putting each ench man In the Job In which he lie will be most productive productive pro pro- typical problems which will arise arc are these Will men with willI good paying Jobs b be transferred transferred transferred trans trans- to paying low-paying Jobs and be forced to accept whatever wage the government decides they should got get Will Vill families be brok broken en u up or forced to move to new places Which war non-war businesses es I I will be considered e essential Who will answer these vital questions and nna be given the power to nand Ie the local end of or a assigning men to the tho jobs The answer to these questions will win nave na to be decided partly try nv legislation and partly by the War Manpower l commission headed bY DV Paul McNutt which is expected to request legislation to fit the plan piano it Is The rho inflation anti program I r I still sUll full Cull ot of loopholes s which must be stopped up before exorbitant prices can be one of ur the most difficult price problem problems I to control Is that of the sale of second hand items by Individuals In the case of or tires bicycles and nud other scarce e items sales are being beins male at nt prices far above aboyo the tho cost which the product would be when new This Is perhaps only a minor mm- mm or part of or the problem but it demonstrates how far it Is noces- noces necessary sary to go in order to complete con control trOI prices prices prices' t rises Hut the chief worry of the American Amerlean Amer ican lean tie people people price of food food- is expected t. t to 1 Kept ept ept well yeU In hand tinder under un tin- der the lie stabilization plans wuie I are now being put into effect |