Show dim many tax laws suggested to get nervous dollars doll ars compulsory savings personal excess income tax spending levy found unpopular or unwieldy orthodox bill seen by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator YOUR BOND DOLLAR HOW THE government SPENDS IT first halt half of 0 IM 1943 akah and A navy and amy 0 1 I 6 ex ua L was A naw no J Pr tur A chide and nd vj penena ard nd other py pay travel for argued forc orm and am civilians agil cultural commo aft for or aport and nd oaf W service union trust building washington D C As far back as biblical days the th tax collector was ao an unpopular person today you dont see the tax collector but you know who writes the tax 1 laws a W S and the folks who do congress gress 3 lead a most unhappy life especially in an election year such as we are approaching th the e comp complicated Heated problem they face can be simply stated think it over and figure out what you would do if you had bad to write a tax law the problem is this how to collect the most dollars and lose the least votes soak the rich well they have the money and it hurts them the least but unfortunately there are not enough of them to soak it is too bad because they are so few in number that their votes dont matter to so much only people or approximately one eight hundredth of those with incomes earn over 10 a year tax 31 the rest that will bring in the biggest total but they are the pries with the votes the president says we need billion d dollars ollar 3 to run the war this year the treasury says rays that out of every douar dollar collected 90 cents goes to pay the war bills S so 0 there have been a number of sch schemes emes concocted which are aimed at getting the nervous dollars the ones most likely to create inflation presumably they are the dollars that belong to the people who are now getting a lot more money than they did be before f ore the war it would be just to take the excess profits to pay tor for the war espe especially claVy because the people who are getting a lot more than they are used to are the ones who spend most freely S so compulsory s has been suggested tug that Is making uncle sam collect a part of everybody income which would be returned after the war then there la Is a scheme chame to tax spending in ft other words tax the dollars which are spent pent on extras dollars that get back into circulation and push up the inflation spiral not the dollars that so go into homes or life insurance or paying old debts but the dollars that romp off for more clothes than you need to wear more food and drink than you need to absorb linacre gadgets than you yon ought to get along with in wartime then there is another tax the personal excess income t tax that is a tax on the amount of of ra anoney ey that you are receiving now thon that t you receiving before the war bachl lacking i ng popularity none of these methods is popular there is a sentimental objection to compulsory savings it smacks according to its opponents too much of totalitarianism of an interference with the individuals personal habits babl the president is opposed to it and his wife agrees agree with him the treasury is opposed to it the spending tax is said to be too complicated and likewise appears I 1 to be unpopular with the treasury then there Is this personal excess income tax of which you will soon be hearing more the chief objection to that tax seems to be that it is too hard bard to work out that it is too hard to make it just and fair even the nazis who tried it gave it up after about a years trial when the personal excess income tax comes up you will he hear ar many arguments against it like many of these other unorthodox meth methods it requires the establishment of what is called a base period to establish a comparison that is some period of time during which the amount earned by the individual is taken as a base then what he is making now Is compared with that base and the difference taxed but that Is a pretty hard thing to work out because so many adjustments would have to be made for special cases that the government would never be able to examine each case and pass on it fairly take the young doctor the year before the war he may have been graduated from medical sc school probably he had little or no income then then he begins to practice and in wart wartime hrie doctors are in demand he may have made a fair income this year would it be fair to tax the excess it if it were the difference between this years earning and the base period when he be was earning nothing at all too many inequities then there are many men who are getting more money now because they work longer hours or have received just and deserved promotions all these things immediately come into the picture when you begin to straighten out the inequities when you really try to tax a just percentage of a mans income and so the predictions which are being made in washington now are that the next tax bill will be a pretty orthodox affair it will simply have about the same kind of ex exemptions e mp a little higher percentage tax and WU will be rushed through at the last minute after as many members of congress have objected to the clauses which they think will be unpopular copular with their constituents the government needs the money and needs it quickly the people dont want to be taxed any more than ci cc n i he e helped and the congressmen oars lan over backwards trying to e the people in while the treasury tells us t tl most of the money which is beine earned due to the great increase in production caused by the war wai is going to people whose incomes are less than a year seven eighths of it least seven eighths of the taxes ought to come from that group BRIEFS B R I 1 E F S by baukhage an honorable discharge from the army during the present war ww will be signified by a lapel button the war department has announced the british radl radio in a french language youth hour broadcast to the continent declared young imen den gala gain time if you avoid going to germany today perhaps you WIN will never have to go the ne nazi ministry of propaganda has ordered oil all literature about be bilto mussolini withdrawn from german libraries and bookshops book shops esp especially c y those drawing a parallel b between e him and adolt adolf hitler the russian tass news agency said in quoting a report from berlin reaching geneva the parallel did exceedingly little to help the cause causa ot of hitler in lis hla country mens eyes |