Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-07-04
The Tax to be Paid in Each State.

When we speak Of taxing our people to an
extent of 100000, 600 each year, by means
of duties Imposed on the for eign and domestic
articles they use, the sum seems alarmingly
! large. When we look at the taxes in the ag-
gregate it appears that their imposition must
be severely felt by every person in the land.
But the impression naturally felt by the long
/ lines of figures we have been accustomed for
the past few months to regard, in speaking of
our national debt, is entirely erroneous. The
tax will be, 10 the surprise of many, scarcely
i felt by many persons, so evenly will it be dis
/ tributed over the country. The ocean, vast
as it is, is made up entirely Of single drops
/ Of water.
| There is one general principle 10 be kept in
! mind by those persons who fear that the tax
will be oFpressi We namely, that what one
/ person is compelled to pay the Government
another person is compelled to pay him; that
this compensating principle hold out good with
every change of ownership, until. at last, the
| actual consumer is TO pay the tax. Now to pay
these taxes there is plenty of money. In ad-
dition to the millions of dollars of specie and
bank notes ordinarily is circulation, there are
$I5000O,0O0 of Treasury notes, more valna-
JIG tAdh 'hC OCoe Vi pdpCiJ eud dIIlOSL &c idl III
value to gold itself, in the hands of the people
The circulating medium Of the country is in
creased by this amount OF money. The coun-
try is, practically speaking, just so much rich
er than usual, and the people have just so much
more money in their possession with which to
cancel their obligations. In consequence of
this increased ability to pay, the levy of taxes
will be less burdenSome than at an Other time
1t will be interesting to our readers to no.
tice the following statements of the amounts
which it is estimated will be required of the
inhabitants Of the different sections and States.
| The estimates were made by Senator Sim
mons, on the supposition that bis substitute
! for the Tax bill woald be adopted, and are
consequently too large, as, it will be remem-
bered, the bill is calculated to raise but about
SIl0 ,000, 900, whereas his substitute was III
tended to yield about SI55OO0O0O The
Senator estimates that in the s tates of New
( Y ork, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut the population reaches 5, ,T46, ,5T2, and
that the average amount each individual
would be required TO pay would be So per
| annum ; in Pennsylvania and New Jersey the
population is 3,578,000, and the average tax
/ s., ,25 per annum in Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont, the population is 1866 600,
and the tax 81; in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois, w Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas,
California, Oregon and the Territories, the
population 9.535 900, the tax in Ohio 50 and
in The other States and Territories named 81
per annum Maryland and the District of CO.
lumba, the tax 50; in Delaware, Kentucky,
Tennessee and Missouri the population $780,
coo [of 6I8,0O0 Of whom no tax could be col
lected) and the tax 81 per aBaaua.-
1t will be seen, therefore, that we Of New
York, nd our neighbors OF Massachusetts
Rhode Island and Connecticut will be required
to pay larger sum per capita than the inhabi-
tants of any other State, and that this sum is
not So. It is well that the taxes are so ar
ranged; for these States are the richest ard
most able to pay.
The consumer of manufactured articles
whether they be Of cotton, iron, wool or other
material, will be required to pay for the arti-
cles consumed price larger by three per cent.
than before the tax bill went into operation.
This tax and that on incomes, from all sources,
are the principal ones levied.
\ dress Of cotton material which heret ofore
cost S. will ouly cost fifteen cents more when
taxes are laid, which additional is SO small as
tc be almost imperceptible. So with other
articles in common use Thus the three dol
lars to be paid is made up of little dribets, so
that when the year is ended the consumer
knows not where or how be has paid it.. The
whole SIOO,00O,OO0 will have been raised,
however, the credit of the nation sustained, its
wars waged and its victories won.