Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-03

so through without voicing a protes
against it.
We regret to say that the facts con.
denim the trainers of the revenue bills
as will be seen by the following state.
ment from the New Yorw World
based on government reports of the
wealth of the states and Of the wal
taxes collected from them:
In the list of states of the solid
south running down the Atlantic sea-
beard from Virginia to Florida nclu-
siVe, the poorest, by the census re-
ports, is Florida, with a wealth OF
$l,049, 13S,22S. BY the same census
reports the state of Maine Is credited
with wealth about the same as Flor
ida's, $1,069, 594,027 But the income
and excess profits taxes paid by Flor
ida for the last fiscal year We're S4,-
6S9, ll6 The state Of Maine paid
$l2,016.0S5.
Look at the table and you will see
that South Carolina has a wealth of
S1.S5l .400,753, and that South Carroll
mas taxes were $7,SS4 200. Then look
at Rhode Island and you will see that
the wealth of that state is on,v $40
S02,690 but Rhode Islar Is taxes
We're S16,SS5,54S.
Vermont and Now Hampshire
mountainous, largely barren, have
not, both put together, anything like
the wealth of Mississippi But the
table shows that while Vermont and
New Hampshire together have less
than 0.000,0 600 os wealth. ana
!, q
100000 of wealth. Vermont and New
Hampshire paid nearly .wice the tax
es-$9, 600 00O-paid by Mississippi,
81. $4,000.
Georgia is one of the great states
of the old south. Georgia has a larger
wealth = $2.3s2, 600.S66 ~ than Con-
necticut with sass, 454.65g. Geor-
gia paid some $16,230,000 of taxes.
Connecticut paid some S62,190,000.
Texas, the largest state in the
solid south, is the richest state in the
solid south. Texas has more wealth
Tran Massachusetts, by half billion
dollars, but Texas paid in taxes some
S3O,313,000, while Massachusetts
paid $166,59S, 600.
TO preserve our own neutrality in
this review of sectional taxation let
us merely mention New York with its
twenty-five billions of wealth but its
$3.50, 265,600 taxes of the last fiscal
year. Let us go on to others. Wis
consin,with $4,4S7,7 has less
wealth than oklahoma with S4,5S1,-
091,91S. Oklahoma paid in taxes S1S,-
26l, 200; Winconsin paid S39.192,0 900.
Michigan, with only. 20 per cent more
wealth - SIS, 427.022,651 - than Okla
homa paid 290 per cent more taxes
than Oklahoma.
Take all these states of the solid
south in a string: Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida Alabama. Mississippi Louis
lana, Texas, Tennessee and Arkansas.
Their combined wealth is billions on
billions more than Ohio's; indeed, it |
is nearly three times ohio's. Yet
Ohio, with $S,90S, 432,943 OF wealth /
paid in taxes $241, 037.457, or $75,- I
100000 more taxes than all these |
southern states put together.
ITO that list of southern states add
Oklahoma. Then their combined |
wealth is nearly fifteen billions of !
dollars more than the wealth of Illi- |
nois. but Illinois paid in taxes $275,- |
l79,O53, as against some $1S4,000, 900 |
by all those southern states.
That string of southern states,
With a wealth twice the wealth of |
Pennsylvanias in round numbers,
oaid, in round numbers, the same
S1S4,000,0 1000: PENNSYLVANIA paid. in
'ound numbers, $49G, 100000.
Even the border states could not |
'scape the discrimination which the
kitchins exercised against everybody
md everything beyond the sacred soil
which they We're saving from taxes.
with less wealth than Texas,
must Thy twice the taxes paid by
Texas. Maryland, with less wealth
han Georgia. must pay two and
lalf times more taxes.
Thus the very records of the Uni
ed States government show that the
Sitchin taxes We're deliberately and
rugged so that the solid
outh oligarchy might not merely
ponge, but prey. unon the taxpayers
whom Kitchin had threatened north
# Mason and Dixon's line"