Show AN UNWORKED MINE kansas city star the federal government collected about million dollars in taxes last year of this amount less than 6 per cent came from taxation of individual in comes the 41 millions collected from such incomes came from persons whose incomes must have amounted at the beast to more than million dollars probably to more than that these rather forbidding statis ties are cited merely to indicate what an unworked mine the government has in the income tax this aggregate of large incomes could pay several times as large a tax as it pays at present without inflicting ciny any hardship on the fortunate recipients of the income it is to a considerable extent the wealth of this country represented in these very incomes inforno s that makes it a tempting tempting ob object j acet for attack simple justice e requires that the possessors of this wealth bear their fair share of the expense expense of the national defense |