Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
G. P. Dyar. Marietta:

quent appraisements.
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G. P. Dyar, Marietta:
| have no plan to propose whereby
money. stocks, bonds or credits can
be put upon the duplicate. We have
tried. long enough along that line to
show it can not be done. | favor such
will change the old and inefficient
method. | do not know the details,
but would like to see the whole mat
| ter placed in the hands of perma-
nent tax commission. Let us do away
with the attempt II tax what can not
be put on the duplicate. The young
men buying homes who have been
mentioned here today will get the ben
eft in reduced interest rates. Put ac-
tual, tangible property on the dupli-
cate. Tax the public service corpora
tions much as we are doing, either
upon the gross returns or on the value
OF their stock. Go after the properly
itself, not the representatives of that
property.
C. NJ, Freeman, Tippecanoe City,
Secretary National Grange.
We find nothing particularly wrong
in the taxation matter if the other fell
low would onlv pay his taxes.
We come into the world without our
own volition, and We are protected by
society. There is a moral obligation
resting on each individual to that So
ciety. In The matter of taxation 1t is
financial duty tc society.
The assessor asks more questions
of the farmer than of the merchant or
manufacturer; true inventory is
taken of agriculture. but not of the
600 less manufactured goods in 1906
than 1875. You ask the merchant one
question:; he may have $1,000,000
worth on his shelves; you ask the
manufacturer two questions; you ask
the farmer Is or 20. II seems to me
this solves the forgetfulness of the
merchant and manufacturer.
In regard to classification IN the
meager time have had to spare to
it | have not been able to find one
word that has been said to show 1t
was just and right.
So, have been convinced that there
is no justice or equity in classification
The man who pays one-tenth of l per
cent enjoys and will enjoy all the ben
efits that the man who pays the full
tax enjoys. He will have the benefit
of the roads, schools, insane asylums
and parks. In other words, he is to be
citizen of this country on a basis of
one-tenth per cent and enjoy every
privilege OIL the man who pays his full
share.
We believe in the taxation of fran
chises, public service corporations and
an inheritance tax. This might be dou-
BILE taxation. would relieve double
taxation wherever possible; do NOT
see how You will get all intangible
catch the property somewhere along
the line. Men of great fortunes have
been enjoying privileges that they
should not be slow to pay for.
AS to the equity of taxing farm
property, paying on mortgages and on
lands. Here is double taxation that
ought to be relieved. | encourage the
building of homes. / like the Indiana
law, which exempts to the amount of
every 800 on every mortgage for each
individual, when the mortgage does
not exceed half the property. The
man who loans the money Is more
able to pay tax than the borrower. l
tax on the mortgage, exempt the real
estate to the amount of the mortgage,
and make the tax lien on the prop
erty, and Offset the note by the re-
ceipts paid on the tax.
If the constitution is to be changed,
| wish you would be kind enough and
good enough to the people, to let them
realize the magnitude of this question
and our inability to solve it, but we
believe ii is worth while to retain a
moral law. You can't afford to de-
stroy a moral law to establish legal
one.
t. C. Laylin, of Norwalk, member.
of the Board of Control of the Woos1
ter Experiment. Station, said: stI
{ | favor inheritance and income
taxes and would extend the Nichols
law TO all Dublic service cofporationS.