The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-03-02
Do NOT RAISE
THE TAX RATE
(Contlnued from fage one.l

not be IN use IN twenty years. He
stated that for education Cuba was
spending Is per cent. of its revenue,
while Hawaii only spent between il
and 13 per cent.
Put More on Counties.
Fairchild stated that the Senate
Committee on Ways and Means was
going carefully into the question of
saving in the departments. He had
not made mp his mind about the ques-
ton of appropriating for conservation
of natural resources one of the ques.
tions of added Territorial expense.
"There is strong sentiment on the
outside islands that many things are
being done by the Territory which
should be assumed by the counties, -
he said "That the counties should be
given more power and then thrown
upon their own responsibility. He
favored purchasing agent for the
government, one man to buy every
thing on competitive bids; if not here,
at the Coast. This man would know
where the finances always stood. On
plantation the business agent at times
was told to cut down expenses or get
out. He always did the cutting. He
assured the meeting that the commit
tees would save money where possible.
Davis for Equality.
Judge George A. Davis said he be-
iieved there should be taxes enough
raised to run the government efficient
ly and not have any department Grip
pied. He stated that he was in favor
8 10 g ba A hra hat ~,
Lincoln, who had been educated neither
at Harvard nor.Yale, and who had not
learned figuring in frenzied finance in
Wall Street, but "equal privileges to
all, special favors to none"
He believed everybody ought to be
treated alike, Orientals and whites,
with no income exemption. Every man
on every income ought to pay l per
cent. tax on It and there should be no
false valuation put on property. One
part of the tax system was abominable
and that was the pawnbroking bust
ness of the government, charging de-
linquent taxpayers 10 per cent. penalty
and 10 per cent. interest on top of
that, pawnbrolSer' rate. That part
of the law should be repealed, as it
was hhJusl 10 WING ~ PEI Scht' OuI
of the poor.
"You may think this speech is rad
zeal, but you know it is true, SAID
the speaker, who stated what he would
do if he were a judge. He also roast
ed w. O. Smith for wanting to have
imprisonment for debt for taxes con.
tinued in Hawaii.
~ believe that too much money is
spent here for education. If a man
wants his children educated in high
schools and things like that he ought
to pay for it HIMSELF IA
Ubiquitous System. Igt
L. Tenney Peck stated that the
idea in the Senate was that there was
now per cent. rate on real and per-
sonal property which should be i'm
posed on all property on a full cash
value, but as there was difference in
the assessment on a unit basis or based
on n profit bearing basis, in one in
stance the rate works out to about a
10 per cent. rate on income.
"The principle underlying the enter.
| prise for profit tax is iniquitous and
unbearable, accepted only at time
when the government had to have a
| certain revenue and have it without
| delay. Taxes should be imposed
equitably on all, " said Mr. Peck.
Gears Tax Bill.
A. V. Gear referred to graduated
property tax bill he had once intro
duced into the House, a bill killed in
committee, The object of that bill
was not to cut up large holdings, but was
| presented as the most equitable man
| ner of taxation.
"Of the 100000 people in this Ter
rtory last year, only 1883 paid taxes
on real and personal property" said
Mr.. Gear, ''and of these l0,9S5 only
paid 100000, while l25 people paid
| $6Os, 900, one half of all the taxes. And
you call this an American Territory
The speaker showed that the bill ad-
vocated by him would ada 100000 to
| the revenues and only increase taxes
OF of | per cent, while the tax rate
| could be made to fit the need by in
creasing the taxation valuation from
10 per cent. mp. Property taxes now
were a burden on eleven out of the
twelve thousand taxpayers He be
lieved the burden should fall on the
shoulders able to bear it.
Income tax amounted to compare,
lively little. The figures of the as
SCISSOR showed proportions as follows,
Ont of 2267 taxpayers $4,000 was
paid by the ones represented at the
meeting, one-tenth of the taxpayers
paying ninetenths of the taxes ON in
come
"There are about fifty thousand in
comes exempted that ought to b,
taxed, " interrupted Mr.. Davis, Will,
some present questioned Gears figures
Small Property Tax.
Mr.. Peck stated that the people OF
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