The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-06-17
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Aaaae ON
industry and that class OF enterprise +.
which aims 80 prom1tg the bettermeut T.
of the human race and IifJ civilization .
90 "a higher plane. but as this is the sys-
tenn of taxation personal property taxi F.
which Is lt present. always has been .
and Is likely % bs I'm vogue for some .
time go come. income should ba SugLud- .
ed, for OF an species of personal proper T
tv income Is the best able to baar Ll1zl- /
ton without distressing owners
The tax on much personal property
can be shifted from thc party who pays
the tax 10 the consumer notably Ia tHe
case of merchants where tls consumer
has the taN TO pay along with other cs-
peuses which are added 20 the price Of
the goods me buys
The tax on incomes is o. tax which the
party paying cannot shift onto others
The receiver OF income does not pass
&c over to another person. and amy tax
coming ont of it goes direct To the state,
The bcueGciary OF income is better
able To pay "a tax on that species of
property than on amy other and pays
the tax without being DISTRESSED there
by. because such tax comes ont OF a sur
plus fund that he can afford to have
drawn upon Tax uu any other species
. of personal property always works hard
ship.
( 4 graduated income tax takes from
f the owners of supcrhu0us wealth and
is not felt
/ say we start at am income of 5000
and exempt all below that amount
/ ANY party who has 5000 "a year of uu-
/ taxed revenue 20 support a family on Is
f iu no danger of suffering for want of
/ means, and really would not feel q tax
+ on sums above that amount
The persons who are compelled 30
subsist whole family on $500 or less a
. year, pay the larger portion of the taSes
o. b &
I IS only fair that those who roll -
b wealth and rake in of this worlds goods
. over So 600 annually should yield p1r-
. tiou of this surplus wealth 10 aid their
/ less fortunate fellow beings, 10y tighten
I ing the taxes taken ont OF the fund
4 which supplies their daily bread
/ We should not only tlE natural per
? sons incomes by "a graduated scale
which cEaCtgd q higher percentage as
. their accommodations increased, reaching
up toward the million point, but also
every artificial person created by the
state which embraces every corpora
tou-railrlal c1mpluieSr telegraph
companies manufacturing corpora
tious, trusts. syudicatesr banking cor
porutious, etc Nor should the iuc1u gz
of these concerns, these artificial per
sons, be first divided and app1rtioucd
among the several companies of which
the com dimes are composed hut tax the
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