Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-03-08
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TAX RATES AND TAX TYRANNY.


There is question but some people are taxed
more than others. and that there dodging
but the fact remains that unequal requirements and
Partially are doing more people with capital
disinclined invest their money in Georgia town
property than any thing in sight.
Where there are tax assessors. it seems next to
impossible to find in the town to fill this respon
sibe position who not biased by their selfish
motives DESTROYS of aiding those whose favor or
influence they desire to retain.
The evil has to MAMMOTH proportions it
is the common talk of town. Some and
cities hercely fighting for commission form Of
government to try to relieve themselves of gross
/ can safely say that nine-tenths of the people
who live in our Georgia towns prefer to rent property
rather it, They do not hesitate to declare
that the exorbitant tax rates becoming next to
completely a the mercy of sorry tenants side
the demands of the authorities the other side
The electric light problem got to be so steep where
live that 1 had to cut it After paying for the
fixtures, and paying enormous taxes to keep up the
city's plant, and paying monthly the of the
meter and paying my share for the salary of the
who came monthly to read It, and paying the
rate of extreme limit per kilowatt that
doing all this and still paying twice much as
my influential neighbors. who used as much or
than did. So I went back to kerosene oil over
a year ago. The story hear repeated as to the
use of gas, and its hindrances
the octopus is reaching out to tax farm
lands There is no measure to the value of any
property except what it will either sell for at forced
sale. what return it yields you as to income and
the latter is the only real test
When conscientious land sets down in
his ledger all gets in rent, and all that he
expends in keeping up the place, with reasonable
allowance and tear-keeping books with him
self so to speak-he knows what that land is worth,
and he should its value to him in accordance
with the profit and loss shown by this ledger
Nothing else is fair until the government state
or national decides to take all farm LANDS 1nto
its absolute control nothing else is legal
Therefore find national movement to tax
incomes, also the single tax problem, to quiet COM
plants.
1 may not be financially able to run my farm as
my thrifty neighbor his but when put down
what nv farm yields in dollars and cents ana can
bring the whole thing cash basis. do not hesi-
tate to say any attempt to extort more ulan
receive results gross tyranny and in the end this
tyranny will defeat itself !.
1 am familiar with farm where, every cent OF
rent is paid in common support on
the Mace to be deducted. With cotton receipts IN
hand that land owner show exactly what thdt
farm is worth to the owner and the percentage on tha
income is as easily reckoned as it is on paie Oh
cotton Any effort to extort more, or assess larger
sum is simply unjust and outrageous
W. a~e 6lIing the land cramful Of men. who are
Obliged to be supported by tax money or go to work
Tbe must have offices, and much Of this hulapalioO
comes out of papsuckers, who like TO estnaae
what belongs to other people, so that their pay VIII
he fortbcomin satisfied that every 1ouflh man
yo, will meet on an average business day Is on the
lief tn be supported by tax money. Maybe every
+bird one would be nearer the truth They expect
1.-THE out of the fellows property and they are
keen to get it.