The Placer herald., 1862-08-09
The Internal Tax and Domestic Economy

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The Internal Tax and Domestic Economy
The San Francisco Bal!etn, Of last Wed .
nesday week. has a leading editorial with
the above caption, from which we quote the
followin.:
The citizen rising from his nights repose
must pay cents pound for the soap, 3 per
cent on the cost of the towel, per cent on
the comb and 3 per cent on the brush wit h
which he makes his toilet. For every wool
en-, linen or cotton garment, with which he
encases his limbs or adorns his person, for
bis boots, his hat, his cravat, bis cane, he
must add 3 per cent to th-ir late cost when
he buys them. At his break fast he must
eat and drink a handsome per cent for
the relief of the government. Aside from
all the provisions OF the new tariff act, con
cerning which we are all alike in the dark
cannot 60 Ear beyond his bread and butter
or glass OF milk or water without crossing
the tax collector Does he eat beefsleak.
the butcher pays 80 cents lax on every bul
lock or eighteen months heifer that he
saughters. Mutton chop9 the butcher paid
3 cents a head for the privilege Of making
mutton Of his sheep. A cntlet Of veal? a
pork steak! the first paid the government a
tax of cents head, the last of 10 cents
II coffee, higher in price than in quality
before costs 3 mills more per pound at the
grinders now. If it is any comfort for him
he may feel that whereas he ate or drank
before first from habit, second for his
strengths sake third for the pleaaure of his
palate now lie may add a fourlhly-for the
flag aud support OF the government; and
may his appetite never fail him!
Does he ride down to busines,2 The
bent Oh the gross receipts Of its business,
and is specially permitted to add the tax to
its rate Of fare, Ohutever laW or agreement
nsay erist to the contrary If he is mechan
;c not at work for himself, clerk whose
boss is licensed, or, rs general Iule, is ~
man on salary" he is not taxed for permis-
sion to labor But he stands at desk tax.
ed per cent, writes with pen taxed per
cent on paper which is taxed from cent
to $50, or else it will shed q conveyance, an
order a draft, a teegraphc despatch, a power
Of attorney, receipt for passage money or
express carr age, IA bill of lading, or any
thing of that sort, just as ducks back sheds
water. He lunches at restaurant which
pays $40 government license and will oct
The tax out of its customers ten times dur.
ing the year, smokes cigars taxed from s. so
to So so thousand, drinks beer taxed at 81
barrel or whiskey taxed 20 cents a gallon
or wine 5 cents a gallon, and consuts in
consequence of physician who pays $40
yearly license. His evening paper costs
him no more than before, though on all ad
verisements 1t pays per cent. OF It's gross
receipts, for It's white paper, 3 per cent, for
each eegraphlc despatch 8 cents. But
toughest of all, since no blinking will veto
IT. and no t. listing make it seem to come
from another rather than himsef-'oughest
of all will come the income tax-3 per rent.
of every dollar over 5000 a year that he
makes In reckoning ones income he may
deduct all State, city or national tax, for
obvious reasons; then deduct all that is deri
we'd from interest on United States securities
which pay not over | | 2 per cent; then de-
duet all he receives from Government for
office, unless it exceeds 5000 year; then
deduct all his profits from bank or saving
deposits, insurance, gas, bridge, express tel
egraph, steamboat ferry or raIr ad stocks,
all these are otherwise taxed, or from adver-
,isenenis, or from the sale Of any articles
on which stamp duties are IeU'ea. So thai
really many a wealthy man may honestly
make oath that his income in the sense Of
the law, is mere trie, and perhaps manage
to pay is income tax without the necessity
of taking chloroform to blunt the pain of the
terrible operation.
The taxable property Of Cincinnati iswor!b