Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1846-07-31
THE TAX LAW AND TAXES FOR 1916

We are as vet unable to present our reader,
with Il complete statement of the new assessment
of personal property, owing to the manner in
which the returns were made to the Auditor OF
State Wcshall cndeayor 10 furnish a few aggrc.
gates and facts Of general interest. One impor.
ran fact, however, has bacndeyclopnd that should
be proclaimed 10 the cxucmitics of the State, as
a triumphant yindicaDion of the new tax law Il
gainsl the assaults Of its oncmics 1t is this; The
horSrg cah'c, HHicS, h0gS and shccp ALL ToGEru-
ER, wjH this gcar SiaHd on The tue dUpicdie at 4.
bout $4,000, 900, being EIGHT MILLIONS or pol
LARS LESS HdH Hc HORSES ard CATTLE ALONE
Wcrc HScd al ida gear!
Where does this fact place those who have de-
nounccd the tax law as designed to opprcss the
jdrmcri Let them hide abashcd, before the
power of truth, and no longer attempt to confront
those whom they have 50 wicIodIy deceived.
llis known that horses, cattle, hogs, sheep and
mules, 90 on the duplicate at half their value,
bringing them down on level with money at in
rcrcsJ. merchants capital, &c. This is what has
caused the heavy reduction of the farmers prop
crly on the duplicate, even after bringing on his
sheep and hogs. Thcmyonpianos, walchcsmcr-
chants capital aud money at interest, &c., make
up lhIs deficiency and add to the duplicate about
SIX millions of dollars over and above the amount
thus deducted. But this increase is too small Ia
make up the deficiency IN the revenue on the old
levy. An additional mill, therefore has been ad.
drd. But how does that leave the case. Why,
even after adding the additional mill, THE FARM
ERs TAXES WILL ne REDUCED! This is a fixed
fact tangible, substantial, that shows to every
man what kind of people the tax law was design.
ed to affect. LdndS, horses. and caiiIe were last
year on the grand list at SlO7 l9O,993. This
year they will stand ON the list after adding hogs
sheep, and mules, at about Sl0O,0OO,OOO; being
a reduction of more than S7OOO0OO! Tho tax
upon the first named sum at sixteen mills on the
dollar was Sl.7l5,O55 80. On the last named
sum, tax of seventeen mills, would yield v :
100000, FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS LESS THAN
WAS PAID IN l845; and yet the State will start on
It's career with a sufficient revenue to moet all de-
mands against it, relieving the Auditor from the
necessity of adding still more to the debt to pay
the Interest," Such Il state of affairs has not cX-
lslcd for about five years. 1t will be a cause OF
congrauauun 10 every patriotic and honest clu-
zen of Ohio. The fact is now satisfactorily sta
ted, let il be- remembered. that the revenues OF
thc State can be increased sufficiently, under the
new law, to maintain It's credit, pay its interest
fund promptly and prevent tho increase of its per-
mment debt, not only wiihom addiHg to the iar
IQi the farmers, bit AFTER MAKING a REDUCTION
/ IN THEIR FAyoRl
Our nyighbor of the Press has rendered him
sclf ridiculous by his illusions Of yesterday to
the subject We advise him to look before he
leaps the next limo, Thcro is not single error
in the statements aud calculations he has taken
from the Journal of the 9h Of June, save that
corrected Immediately oGcrwars--an csor that
every child could soc was purely accidental
bet the Press and ila co-worhcrs compare thcil
IPredcions, assumptions and declarations with
the facts they now actually cAis, and coule7.