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Show THE TAX 15 ILL Most every one will welcome the news from Washington Wash-ington that the Senate and House of Representative members are putting a lot of thought to the reductions of the 1946 taxes. The tax problem has always been an aggravating one because it is hard to write one that is fair and reasonable to all classes of individuals. The large income group, although they are well able to pay heavy taxes, argue that they should not be forced to pay too much because they must need fabulous sums to finance the growing concerns tha they are responsible for; especially do they require, at the present time, money to reconvert the plants into peace time production. produc-tion. And then, too, the large companies are made up of thousands of individual investors who are anxious to receive a, fair return on their investments. Those' in the small income group feel that it takes practically all they can earn to give themselves a modest living. Utah's representative, Walter K. Granger was one of the ten who recently voted against the tax bill, 1 not because they were against the taking from the in- ( come tax rolls some 12,000,000 taxpayers, but because the bill was removing the so-called luxury taxes on many items that really are not essential necessities of life. They feel that items such as cosmetics, jewelry, night clubs, amusements and liquors should still continue con-tinue to carry a heavy tax. Had the tax bill been broken down into several bills dealing with various commodity groups there would be a more resonable consideration of the tax problem. We think the attitude of the ten representatives should not be criticized too severely. |