Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-06-14
AN TAX.

That is what it is: this Mine-tax is an
income tax. Nothing less. Can inc
State levy it? Talk about equality oil
taxation" uniformity" etc? There
is no equality about this tax. a the
proceeds OF the mines AS you tax other
property, and You tax the dumps at the
mines and mills once n year. This was
pressed by the opponents Of the Special
Session Mine-tax bill, on the floor of
both Houses. There never was and
could not be devised q more unequal tax
than the one the mines submitted to,
for a period Of two years. And yet, not
content with the tax which Storey coun-
~ mining men agreed to for two years,
we have q Special Session bill raising
the tax, and then a still farther lift in
taxation is made from u le~gislating de-
cisiou by the faro-fle-in-set-of Supreme
Bench. What next? Why, we have
heard persons in this county rereai it as
a part of Bias programme, to tax from
the mines sufficient to run all the Gov
ernments, and leave all other taxes out
of the law. By such strange and wicked
talk have some been deceived and lead.
Then, in such case, where is your ''uni-
formity q" But the " income tax that
will be collected from the mines, if they
submit to our State Court decision,
would run the State Government, and run
local Governments with Il margin of rich
ness. Can the mines afford to accede
to the demand? Our County Assessor,
as shrewd and as experienced d c~alcula-
tor as there is in our communities, him.
self declares that the mines cannot
abide such a levy. Since the Governor
and his junta have pushed this business
70 the extreme-and we have always
commended that this movement to tax
the mines was aggressive-there ought
to be no compromises, but a definite and
final settlement Of the matter in the
United States Courts.
Our people should bear in mind that
the cost of producing Sic, 900 900, in
bullion from Storey county, last year,
was about SIS, 500, 900. So the margin
of profit was very small, relatively +;
SIS. 600, 900, were, BY the mines, shed
abroad 4" through the country, through
Washoe, and Lyon, orusby, and Doug
las. This whole subject was fully
brough, up and discussed, in behalf of
the mines, at the Special Session but
the "scaled, caucussed majority Of
the Governors council paid no heed TO
truth or justice in their legislation on
the mine-tax.
Should the mines pay ~ income tax
even exceeding all claim Of profit, and
coming close to bare proceeds? It con-
s~titutes the greatest outrage ever per-
~petrated, in the name of " uniform and
equal taxation" The people OF this
entire State, rsnchmen as we'll as and
as much as mining men, are interested
in the overthrow Of this most Ubiquitous
levy. A wild, senseless cry against
/" foreign capital" has aided largely in
enabling an INSCRIPTIONS executive to
force through the legislature a bad bill
the wors, kind Of u measure for Ne
vada. That a legislasing Judiciary have
novel ideas about what constitutes
uniformity of TAXATION" aud about
the facts connected with mine taxation
heretofore, we shall show in another
article.
Suppose the State legislature under
Bias dictation attempted to levy an ip-
com tax on the merchant, the mechanic,
aud the farmer. How long would it be
submitted to? At all? Mining men
have been acceding to this SCI. Of levy.
II is outrageous. It is UNANIMOUSLY un.
lust.