The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-09
GREAT SPEECH
BY DEBOER
In Defence of Bill to Abolish
Offsets
AND HARRY DANIELS ALSO
The House Debated All the Forenoon
One Of the Momentous Questions
to Come Before the Present
Session.
state House, Dec 0.

state House, Dec o.
The grentost speech Of the present
session Of the legislature was made this
morning BY Mr.. DeBoer Of Montpelier
when the bin 10 abolish Offsets for debts
owing was taken up as one OF the three
great taxation measures upon which the
ioint committee on taxation had agreed
unanimously as a step in the right direc-
tion. He discussed the question along
broad lines, saying that the time had
come 10 stop talking about the wrongs
and presenting little petty arthmctleai
problems on the question and TO act on
something.
fe stated that the trouble was that
we had lost the power to act on the
strength Of our convictions and the cour'
age Of our forefathcrs in acting on
measures. for fear Of possible mistakes.
fle predicted that ii the recommendations
Of the taxation commission which had
worked on the problems for two years
were carried out with respect 10 the
abohshmeut of offsets, a fat rate on in
tangiblcs and a taxation commission.
that Il would result in improvement in
the financial status Of nine men ont Of
ton He referred 10 the great sentence
Of tho report OF the commission, We
recommend unanimously that the law
allowing offsets should Be repealed
he commenced with the general idea
Of taxation more than 30 years ago, when
the property tax was the principal thing.
Realty was the main thing then. Later.
wealth began TO multiply, corporation
bonds came into existence, and people
seized and came into possession Of per
sonal property and it became necessary
70 tax personal property and make more
Of it.
Briefly touching upon the history Of
taxation in the state, he said that he
had found that Vermont did have a gen
eral fundamental principal Of taxation.
/ That the property tax was applied To-
cally for the support of municipalities
and the tax on corporations for the
support Of the state. He said the trou'
bic with it was that the system was not
elastic enough to meet the industrial
economic and commercial needs Of the
state and that some day the state might
/ find that the corporations on which they
! depended had faded away He found
satisisc ion. however in the fact that
/ Vermont recognized Is right to collect
on state property like the schools and
Highways a. was demonstrated by the II
per cent tax property lists for schools
and highways.
lie said the legislature Of 1906 went
fpto tho question and found something
wrong WIN u7e laAatr'n slslelii y =.
mont ana az fesait q yViiliii,ss.,,u y.
able men was appointed pS lne Euf'l ~. ~.
( TO study the q9e5'lon ana Iepos" Az. ~
I highiy commenced ,Ne VOTE VI vna
I commission. saying Vhat tne report VS.
/ one OF the pest documents IN l.' his'o,S y
/ OF the state. NE eailea attention m 70 the
findings Of TINS commission ana lae aIsu-
/ ments used IN feaeiili's tuosv ll'id'llss
mere were oa5 sax states IN eHs gi'iJl ~
leit ~ "hleh ei'7ets "tIe 'tgoslli1eu, ~. =.
9alo 'i,e Vy'iliiI's t'.'O ..l.i 3, -,
value q real state had increased ~ iaFes
/ proportions IN tne past leN years ana
\ that the Fa'he oI persona property ri a.
1 it was appraised haa oecfeasea' ! y
speaker pFophesleu lhat u oH5ets Wefg
g fN''''hA ''t'' - .. .,.g- @
the state S50'po00uV.
No Douhle Taxation.
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lis tI. sI@,'' atfen y.at . !, hi. oniy,io, II
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seemed StiaIsJ " a9,l shn,lIP P1aP "a t,yad =,
hNe Per Seul, o',.lu s.',,,''u ., nf LII
wen - tns PIVPelsS W. 'lua ia.,t,a y NJ
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taloe W. p.epgti ban5s NV '@ an5 ova4yt ~ KIM
Y, lga'. " ~, -, ha,,iJ M taxSd ~.
tlse na''n5 '".,'f I' Lin srsteT,
coIqlH6 = 81 H.,s"p. ~, - = stata. ,rov.;r,
tle s"tu nc Ne 0,.I,Ia,r,1 ~, iatasF
aP IN tns " NV, l'>io!t',n1 y .at4; w lf,
Teah@ed ll'e Ie'ss7'ts ". - ,a..I,Ia
pc SYSTEM ., ifS-.l}.r yH@olo'l annIf,g III.
equ''.al.y anu .t'''s 49,. ,:,ra tha .ssosso,
tWo ilHPo, toto us ~ .e.,,.aJ "a
VINO iouno ~ PtoP05v2 l,',4; ~ ',,rs' ~ ~,
ana Vhe e'luA''V'' ,''7 u '''''" " ''',
tax a., ia. .,..4;,r
'Te.NIg ao"I ~ w ai5 Nv. a.. 9r5',.l
oi onsets' nj Dei3oel s.'iu ina on. "
cepuons msoe 10 que Vtue Natuo VI Flop
ertF caused eFaslouS anu aueSseu y, 'tu' ~
Naiaes' re gave an tA'lu ~ u 'ile ~
dustry ,Whleh touna !, u n9'a 10 oe 'ane'
! on mEemnefN Whieh ~ u'o NOV Owl ~
he said that the state was pf'leeIlH3
that industry opportunity through th'