New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-02-26
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You are perpstuaily asssiled with petitions ior
this that and requests that such or such mat
ter should be acted on or let alone. Your Sessl N
is more than half out and Ms yet your most i'm
portsn, and necessary business is nothing near
half done, but what you have done has in the man
been so well done that you will pardon the mpor-
tunity OF constituents who anxlousiy desire that
YOU should act directly the subject ct Equal and
Just Taxation, yet fears that in the multiplicity OF
demands on your time this question viii be over
looked Let us briefly set before you the injustice
which the residents o. our city now endure % ..
City is worth Three Hundred Millions OF Dollars,
of which onethrd is Personal tte residue Rcal
Estate Of the Personal Property probably about
three iourths is owned by actual residents OF ON
CITY,, but even these cannot all be obliged 10 poy
taxes here, while our tax laws make al unjust and
absurd distinction between residents and nonfes
dents, whereby the latter are screened from the
payment OF taxes ON their personal property
capitalist who hes One Hundred Thousand Dollars
or more invested here in Trade or Banking cr
Stocks, with his elegant mansion in the best quar-
ter of the City, by simply stepping out OF town m
MtNs uis W WV i''if 'o "'N~ ~"
ten Island or elsewhere. and declaring himself nat
a resident OF tho City avoid the payment OF
all taxes hero except on his City Real Estate, n
such nc have being probably required 10 pay one
twentieth to one hundredth as much where le
spends his summers RS he ought 10 pay where his
business is Prosecuted and his profits realized
The taxes he thus evades must Of course be paid
by those who cannot at any rate do not seek any
such escape from their just liabilities.
What are Taxes Are they not contributions
levied persons and property for the protection
Of the rights OF person and property In other
words are they not mainly assessments ON prop
orty TO defrsy the cost of lighting, watching, aud
otherwise protecting sand property And II tho
are, why should man escape taxation because he
chooses To i've away from his property, since II
does no, the less but rather the more require pro
lection on that account
The heaviest proprietor in this establishment re
SIDES not only cat OF ths City but out Of the state
ia bona Ede citizen OF pennsy wanna, living ON
his own farm there, and spending large portion
OF hip time there. Is that any reason why his
share OF The Tribune property should be exempt
from taxation here Or suppose he Is doing other
business here, and drawing az incone from money
invested here, should that escape taxation hsrc
HRy should IL
The winter hereof owns Individually one build
ing lot in this City, and no more aud expects al
some time 10 put house on il. That nsked lot
cannot be stolen. nor burns, nor materially injured
an any way by casualty, violence nor fraud. Il
there were no Police and no Government for an
indefinite period to come. the 10, would sua be
there, and could not be materially injured Yet
that naked lot is taxed some twenty fye to thirty
dollars per annum-ior WHAT In part 10 guard
and protec, the goods wares and fabrics Of persons
who do their business and make their money here
yet hive in Jersey, BroOkyn. New Haven or else
where and thus throw upon others the COS, Of m,
tectng their property.
Legislators Of New York Will You uphold and
perpetuste this wrougl Why sAcalA YOU D>
you fancy that the slender and doubtful sdvantss,
aecruiug 10 the counties Of some Of you by the ia
sitive residence therein Of cur tax dodgers Will ex
cuse your cOnnivance al such a wrong II no'
We crave your prompt and decisive acton ID
no, put us OF BY dis agreement between the ,w'
Hoases nor aI< jusgle whatever. but let US iV'
under an equal and hoRcst Tax Law