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Show . SALES TAX Tht proposal of.a sales tax to increase in-crease Federal revenues is another reminder re-minder of the attitude of mind which dominates tbt leadership of our nation. For those who though enviorment, Culture and association with the ultra rich have such deepjtoottd convictions char prosperity mul return by way of excess profit log the few through domination of production and labor, the Sales Tax no doubt, seems a proper pro-per meant of raising revenues. SALES TAX ijjNJUST I fundamentally and obviously a sales sal-es tax is not a just tax. It has been suggested sug-gested that the tax be placed on luxuries, lux-uries, and semi-luxuAes but any sane thinker knowt if ojke such a tax is instituted it will spread to the sale of ( necessities at Well. Every sales tax so far introduced in tlx states and by tthe Federal Government,' has grown out of proportion of reason within a few r'tarl. They have Jetn used as a ve-hicit ve-hicit ior raising billions of dollars to tupply money . for unreasonable expansion ex-pansion of certain tfepartmental functions func-tions usually built Up to satisfy the ambition- of those administrating those ABnmrtmmnt ? 7 r - j Takt tbt tobacco tax, tht Oleomargarine Oleomar-garine tax or the gasoline tax. The tobacco tax it unreasonable because it it considered as an j unessesary luxury and perhaps it is. but what of the on margarine? It is not for thepur-poat thepur-poat of making sale of this product prohibitive and to compel the poor to pay high prices for butter. - Ten we come to the most ridiculous- unjust and inexcuseable high ,vt introduced ina democracy. And gat ts not luxury any more than electric lights.' puVic school or coal for tht f urttact. Yet in Utah, where thit product it told unreasonably high, VU- rf 15 P ttnt of moroe it required. re-quired. Ia a ipartety settled state like ours, it costs the users of gasoline, in addition'to tht cost of the fuel itself, 14 Id-dollars an hour --$10,000 per day f having the privilege of using (fat. tome states (hi ta is tven double what Utthntjlavt to piy. , ; REASON SALES TAX IS UN- JUST Ont of the reasons why a sales tax I Uajust it that tht poorer class has to pay out of proportion, to the rich, when compared to income. Whether nacessitiM nr Invn.:., ,!.. ..: oC tht' poor wagt earner and his de-pendents de-pendents art approximately the same at; that of tbt more wealthy class, although al-though may be from ten to one hundred hun-dred thousand times as much. Therefore There-fore tbt head of a family making$2. 000 per. year would have to spend approximately all be made for tht sup-port sup-port of his houst and would therefore pay a tales tax on bis entire earnings, while the man making $100,000 or a million would perhaps pay a sales tax on only one fifth or a tenth of his Mcome. Congress will convene on December 1st and -will be faced with a most critical situation. Many proposals of unusual methods of a strenuous and for reaching nature will be presented as a panacia for the ills of the moment. mom-ent. Pet' scheme, dangerous and untried un-tried will be urged upon our law makers. mak-ers. If there was ever, a time when they' should tjke cquiicij pj wisdom anif9ht i thit tim if now. if M ttnngt that those who havt alwayt opposed the income tax .! ratf. |