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Show Representative Sydney Anderson of Minnesota Minne-sota has been active in eliminating from the revenue bill some of the conspicuously unjust taxes which, in his opinion, aro almost confiscatory. confisca-tory. In the paragraph relating to soap and other toilet articles he presented nn amendment providing thut the specific tax of G per cent should not be levied until a profit of 8 per cent had been earned on tho nctunl capital invested. Anderson believes that such a provision is along the line of good business on the part of the government, gov-ernment, and necessary in order thnt the sources from which the new taxes will come may not be destroyed altogether. "Soap may be a luxury in the state of North Carolina," suggested Anderson, Ander-son, referring to the home of the democratic chairman of the ways and means committee, "but it certainly is not in the state of Minnesota." |