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Show FARMERS TALK BURDEN DF TAX Farm Bureau Federation Is for Letting Industry Hear Its "Proper" Share boise, Ida. Aug:. 27. Reports received re-ceived here from the recent Denver meeting of th executive committee of the American Farm Bureau Federation Feder-ation Indicate that thr federation will try to make sure that additional bur- dsns are not shifted from Industrial Interests to the public by contemplated contemplat-ed revinlon of national taxation laws Decision was reached also to cre.ite :i Ifedeiatlnn traffic detriment The decision on taxation followed a review cf agricultural for repeal of !the exceaa profits tax, whli h taki from corporation and other business earning -4ft per cent of all profit Ln excess r.f 20 per cent net profit on ln-veBtmnntH ln-veBtmnntH This tax last year raised for the government almort two billion dollars S?eral substitutes have been suggested. BIRD F.N ON TAXE8. The Idea of the American Farm Hu-reau Hu-reau federation is that the big ta burden of the rountry should be borne by the interests most able to pay and Phould not be paid out of th living w.ikc of the average Individual consumer. con-sumer. It Is aluo contended that the excess profits tax has not "crippled" business to any discernible extent and that it seems a conservative tax, when It Is considered that Great Britain levies a similar tax of 60 per cent instead in-stead of th 40 of the United Stutes I'ror T. S. Adams of the I'nlud States treasury, during the war, outlined for ths farmers the present problems of administration of national taxes. Decision for immediate organization of -a traffic department was Influenced largely by a comprehensive report made by CUrford Thorno. nationally- known authority on transportation. It is Intended that this department shall, keep Itself closely informed a to car requirements of various agricultural regions, rate situation and kindred ! facts, and work with the several state farm bureaus for Improvement of transportation defects that In the last few years aro held to have cost the farms of the country millions of do'-lars. do'-lars. DELEGATES COME WEST. The next meeting of the organization organiza-tion will bo held in Indianapolis Dec 6. 7 and 8. In conjunction. It was de-elded de-elded that there shall be held a natlon-ii natlon-ii I farm women s meeting to consider problems of home economics and related re-lated toplo. It was announced that Prof. Q F. Warren of Cornell university 11 A Wallace of Iowa and Senator Capper of Kansas had accepted positions on i the economic committee of the feder-J atlon. Three additional members Will bo named. from Denver, the committee moved to Sail Lake to consider western wool pooling, migar beet raising and Organisation Organ-isation problems. A group of middle western state representatives than went to California to study marketing methods me-thods of the I'uciflc coast fruit growers.' grow-ers.' Tith a view possibly to applying some of the principles there used to middle western co-operative marketing market-ing of farm products. |