The age-herald., 1900-08-20
Repeal of the Back Tax Law.

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 The state tax commissioner very natural ly pleads for continuance of his office although circumstances have smashed the machine of which it was a part It now stands on it's merits and they are not great. The commissioners own tables show that the taxable property of the state stood at s25S.979575 in 1899 and at $25S.96O,IS in 1890. In nine years the gain was only $10,- 0SS. and yet no one believes this sum rep resents the growth of the state in the pe- riod named
 relates more to the apportionment of taxa tion than to the aggregate of it. In thirty four counties property holders return what property they please at whatever rates of value that suit them. The back tax sys- tenn then proceeds to unload on thirty-two counties alk that the thirty-four counties have evaded, and as much more for fees sake, as the commissioners can carry through. It is In other words, unequal in its operation, unjust everywhere, and op- pressive and uncertain. It's operation gogism, and it lives upon avarice. It holds out fees to the oppression of some coun- ties, while other counties go scot free Such Jaw must, if justice be still alive and well, be repealed.
 "our people," says the Montgomery Ad- vertiser, "are now as they ever have been ready to submit to any just and equitable assessment. All that is wanted is fair revenue law to be executed by the state and county revenue officers provided by the constitution. The rigid and faithful execution of such law can be compelled without any back tax commissioners.
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