The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-09-15
Tax Removed From the Rich and Doubled
Ip on the Poor.

a frequent burden of radical politicians
who are exerting themselves with poor
success to revive the waning confidence of
the people 10 their ability to manage the
country is that they have reduced the taxes.
They have reduced some taxes and
increased others, and the taxes that they
have reduced are those that are very pro-
ductivc Of revenue without being a burden
to the masses of people, while the taxes
that they have increased are those which
TeaS ii Fevenue But
they greatly enlarge the prices and the
profits OF the manufacturing monopolists.
Such are the effects of the modification Of
the tariff In regard to internal taxation,
it is an absolute curiosity to see the arti-
ces from which taxes were removed, and
we copy the list to show the extent OF radi
cal ingenuity in devsiog methods of re-
hardship to be taxed because they are
abundantIy able to pay, and OF removing,
taxes from exactly those articles that
ought to be doubly taxed as they are ex-
clusiyely luyurles of the rich, or the means
by which wealth is expended or exchanged.
or investments of capital transferred, or
some other thing which should be ronndly
taxed as means for abolishing taxation On.
the nccessaries of the poor. The list is as
follows
Carriages, watches, billiard tables, sill
yer plate, gold plate, passports; receipts of
railroads, steambo It's, etc; licenses for re-
tail and wholesale dealers taxes on sales
Except liquors and tobacco); taxes Oh
banks brokers, ho el keepers claim, in
surauce aud real estate agents and manu-
facturers' licenses licenses for amuse-
ments, gift enterprises, lawyers, physicians.
architects builders, coffee and spice grind
ers, express agents, ETC.; miners, as.ayers,
plumbers, photographs, butchers, eating
house keepers, and all other licenses except
those Of dealers in liquors and tobacco ),
canned and preserved fish, bills and re-
ceipts. pronSsory notes for less than $780,,
on legac!es and SUGGESTIONS. tThe last mem
toned are paid by stamps. y
Those who ride in their own carriages
are relieved from paying 80 each annually.
Those who play billiards will find an abate-'
ment in the tariff for game, unless the
keeper regards this tax relief, as his special
profit, and continues to charge players the;
same rates after his license tax is abolished
Those who eat off gold and silver plates,
can comfort themselves that they arc not
tax payers on that count. Our nabobs'
going to Europe 70 spend their thousands
can Go it on an untaxed pass port; and our
mammoth railroad and steamboat corpo>
rations can add to their profits the amount
which they formerly paid as tax on receipts,
which will send up the value of all stocks
Of that kind for the taxes are less and the
profits are greater.
And so we might go through this list
finding how carefully when it was imposed
Congress Disseminated against labor and
the poor, upon whom all the taxes remain
without mitigation or relief, while for the
luxuries of the rich and for those articles
or professions which are not manual labor,
but are the uses to which capital Is placed
that it may increase; there is relief from
all taxation. The rich, the traders, the
spectators, the professions, are taken out
from the list Of tax payers III which tho
poor and the workers remain, and their
burdens oftaxation are increased to make
mp the amounts from the rich and the cap
ltalists are relieved. ST. Paul Pioneer.