, 1870-06-03
THE INTERNAL REyEHuE BILL.

41e taf-S0thereB II China have been
described as men appointed by Law to col
aect as much money from the people as
they can without producing any insurrection
which they cannot themselves suppress.
General Schenck and his Committee of
Ways and Means seem to be 1abozing to
bring our. revenue system as near TO the
Chinese standard as they can. The COM
mittee has reported a bill of eighty-five
pages Of printed matter, the professed
object being to reduce taxation. Senator
Sherman has reported from his committee
a.bM of one page and a half, which reduces
OF repeals taxation to the extent of S4G,-
600, 900. II also abolishes vast amount
Of legal machinery, bookkeeping, and
host OF expensive otfces
One great defect Of our revenue laws is
their comple1ity. They started out to tax
everybody and everything known to man
kind. To do this required code of laws
and an army Of ofhceholders such as are
unknown to civilized governments The
arms Of the law were extended in every d.
section, and nothing escaped the ta1. A
conscientious man could neither eat, drink,
sleep, work, WALL, ride, drive, nor die with
out finding it necessary to pay tax at
every turn. There was tax on every
horse,. mule, sheep, OK, COW, and on all
they produced. The iron WAS taxed as it
came from the futnaca, taxed when made
into bars, taxed when made into rails, and
taxed as part of the finished article in which
It WAS used, even for repairs. Taxes were
simple and compound plain and involuted,
rectangular, circular, and quadrilateral.
They enyeloped every man aud every In
dust1y. Time has produced some changes.
In July, 1866, Congress repealed taxes
which had produced, the year before,
SG6, ,00o, 600. In March following, ike
taxes, to the amount Of $40, 900, 600,
were repealed In February, 1868,
there were $4,000, 900 additional re-
moved, and by the acts of March and July
of the same year, $45, 900, 900 more were
repealed Here was repeal ct internal
ta1es equal to s175, ,0oo. 900 annually. Each
repeal Was followed by an increase OF the
revenue from the remaining taxes The
last reduction was just previous to the
-'eA1ueALaA e4eesat'h' WV years naVe
elapsed IN winch tne surplus revenue has
averaged S10o, ,O00, ,009, and Congress has
done nothing in tbs way of reducing the
taxes or simplifying the 1nws. The revenue
LAW" na'e' OF course, been rendered less
complicated by each repeal Of taxes, but
.ney WE e' q aisetace 70 .tae- nat'ona1 4ee-
r.
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