New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-09-05
HE DIFFERS WITH ECKSTE|N
Bosky Sees Commissioners Prob.
lem Differently.
Suggests that Principles of Modern
Taxation Cypress.
Sets up Argument of Socialism as
Remedy For the Evil.
Mankato, Sept. 21st., 1906

NCA1SAy TO1 IllSE Eflls
Mankato, Sept. 21st., 1906.
Editor Review:
s'Mr. Eckstein's talk on taxes is
undoubtedly we'll mean, but he will
be puzzled with this problem until re-
surrection-day if he sticks to the false
ideas of present-day political economy.
His entire viewpoint on the subject
is wrong, because he has not the right
understanding of thefundamental prin-
ciples of taxation, which is "labor''
pure and simple.
If the earth would be depopulated
and the present generation would sud-
denly appear upon it, would there be
any other taxes than to get this gener-
alton, first of all, engaged in the pro-
duction of wealth-that is the neces-
saries Of life? There would be no price
on anything but the effort it requires
to produce it.
There would not be a soul that would
claim for his equally necessary SER
vice a higher price than another, in
fact they would know nothing about
prices.
Here is the hitch. Inequalities of
values of things which economically
have like values, inequality of wages,
and salaries, and profits, and inter-
ests, cause all those troubles which
boards of corrections and equaliza-
tons try to disentagle.
The trouble with taxation-equ
tion, Mr.. Eckstein, lies in that won
derful business system of ours which
makes the owner of stores, land, mines,
ETC., pay to the men they employ one
fourth of what they produce and often
much less; then the employee buys
with his scant wages cheap goods and
the employer good goods with his
profits and then along comes the as
SCISSOR to whom a horse looks horse
and piano a piano no matter if they
are 1000 dollars different in price, and
OooOoSOo uuOA OIL d41h0 tG 1uc ululmQul
rate, who gets the worst of this deal?
The poor man, every time! It is not
the few big tax amounts which make up
the total revenue, it is the millions of
small assessments, which not only
weigh heavy on the small business
man and property owner but more so
on the laborer who for his productive
work receives only a part of the wealth
he creates and must pay as a consumer
all the taxes of the employers in the
goods he buys in the store; so labor
has nothing left for its services but its
energy. To-day prominent men hold
! easily their reputation as successful
business men for not seeing the truth
in economies, while we fellows, tramp;
but some day, the truth will give things
a different aspect.
| Equalization of values of things and
OF the value OF work, both things upon
which our existence depends, is the
only possibility to establish justice
and fairness in taxation.
Equal distribution of labor and
Equalization of the values of the pro-
duct is the only way out.
May Mr.. Eckstein begin to under
stand this problem by considering the
work of the men who produced the
goods he sells in his store as impor.
tant as his ability to sell it then he
will readily admit that the first dis.
honesty of taxation commences in the
factory or on the farm or mine where
laborers are underpaid for their work
and continues to the store where the
employer makes the producer and con
sumner pay his taxes through the prof
its charged upon the goods by under
paying. ours,
ED. BosKY.