The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-05-25
Incalculable Injury Done.

TO the obsolete law OF cash val /
uationY
Incalculable Injury Done.
1t is with regret that | again
feel called upon to comment pub
licly upon this full cash value
scheme, a. scheme that has
already done incalculable damage
to the state, and, if the policy is
persisted in, will result in untold
damage yet to come. However,
as the high-taxers have under
taken systematic campaign of
the state, it is only right that fall
lacies of their scheme should be
pointed out, and that the taxpay-
ers should be warned of the dan
gers that confront them.
Il will give one concrete illusA
tration here in Ada county. Take
a taxpayer that was assessed at
$1,000 last year. He paid $22.90
county and state taxes. This year
if he be a farmer, his valuations
has been raised 700 percent acA
cording to the county assessor.
or to $1,000 valuation. If it is
/ per cent he will pay $40 taxes,
an increase of over 800 percent
If it is one-half of / per cent, he
will pay $35, an increase of 100
per cent. But, pshaw! The
school tax alone will be one-halfl
of / per cent, or five mills, the
minimum permitted by law. Sup
pose the tax is $1.50 on the $100
or Is mills, which will be nearer
the rate than 5 mills; then, the,
tax of $1,000 would amount to
$105, an increase of nearly 300
per cent. The value of 1O-acre
tract in Ada county according to
the assessment under the full
cash value plan, is about $1,000.
This is $1,000 per acre taxes. The
owner of such a tract had bet
, ter give his land away and rent
for cash than to pay taxes. /
E call this confiscation of property,
The tax payer probably calls it
by the name General Sherman ap
piled to war.
"The farmers who protest
, against this outrage are tax
, dodgers, according to the high
, takers.
! q suggest that Ada county of
fers a fertile field for campaign
ing for the present application
a of the full cash value assessment
t scheme. In the recent gooC
roads election, the defeat of the
g good roads plan was due to the
i disapproval of the people of ful
: cash value assessments and thu
! threat of hight taxes, already
e amounting to confiscation.
suggest a meeting in White Cros
precinct, where the vote was
to 228 against and at union pre-
:. cinct where the vote was o to 81
" against.
g A discussion Of the full cas-
: value scheme is often clouded b,
:: the assumption, upon the part o
- those who favor its present az
= plication, that those who oppos
- - it are opposed to its principle
y This does not necessarily follow
But few people are opposed
- the principle. Many are oppo'
% % ed to its application, until OF
. revenue system can be revised
20 70 and upon this point the issue
~, clear cut.
~ The Harm Done.
a. "The fact can not be obscure
OF that the high-taxers policy hi
ne already to a certain extent dl
ID turbed business and created
in feeling of uneasiness as to i
ultimate effects. 1t is deplorab
ne as to its tendency TO arrest Il
a immigration to the state, whic
ne is so needed at this juncture
VS. the states history when it is
of its infancy of developement an
of and progress. That there wi
be considerable hesitancy upc
or the part of people who desire
he change their location and esta
x lish homes in a new section b
he fore they will invest their ca
of ital in a state where taxation
known to be beyond reason ca
he not be doubted. In fact from n
tie view point, this policy could n
nd be more illogical than it is.
les "We should keep in mind tn
an Idaho has made wonderful pr
an. gress within the past few yea
ed because of her wonderful resou
es her superiority over all 9th
re- states in the union in irrigati'
.hn facilities and nnSSihilitieS. "a