| Show mammoth fortunes protected by the government should bear tax burdens by representative SAMUEL J TRIBBLE of geoia new york owns about of the wealth of the country and before the enactment of the income tax law more than one half of this escaped the gatherer tax on the other hand the gatherers tax never fail to find all the assets of the man with one little farm ane one cow one horse borss and small income his little possessions are visible and his tax burdens heavy enormous estates have grown up in in this country by the thousands and pay practically nothing not liing to the federal government while they exact much from the government as protection to the great estates and interest thereto attached why should not these mammoth fortunes be taxed they requite much of the government to throw around them the arm of government protection the incomes are so BO large that the holders thereof cannot consume them even by luxurious living therefore incomes become a dangerous surplus gnawing at the very vitals of our national life and they circumscribe the efforts of men in the common walks of life to obtain a competency of this worlds possessions the vast ic accumulations 0 ol 01 f wealth can well afford to bear taxation and increase of tax better than any other class of taxable property h |
