The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-24
THE IMPORTANCE OF AN ELECTION

D years do the people of this city have an ID opportunity to actively and certainly determine the quality of the city government.
 individuals who compose the government being once chosen may they please for 730 days until their expire, years long time It is thrtyfifth of Scripura But not actively interested in public affairs as rule before they years od two years tventy-h of the active political life of 
 The individual has only limited number of opportunities things right in the city government if they He has only few chances to aid in keeping things right if they right
 And the City of Bridgeport with it's 175OOO citizens pretty important part the United States It 750h part of this country in population, and much than that in wealth. productivity and industrial importance.
 Bridgeport lapses into state of gross msmanagement and dishonesty if ideas of public honor corrupted here hood and theft to considerable degree must the United be corrupted dishonored and all its problems multi piled and all its social questions made difficult of settle ment
 The High Cost of Living is composed of many clements among which, is the cost of city government,
 By habit of hinklng which many pracce the cost of city government gets less attention from large class of c than it ought to have People have accustomed them selves to think the citizens taxpayers of the people non-taxpayers
 The distinction is exist No man can escape running the city, if he is self supporting Very often the direct taxpawer lent the actual taxpayer More often than not the RENT PAY FIR is the REAL taxpayer,
 He is the deeply concerned in having the city as it should be
 The landlord charges his rent The tenant pays the landlord the landlord the tax collector That is the way it goes.
 The burden of municipal upon dwelling in which h. vestigaon will show.
 Since Mayor Wilson the city government eight taxes upon dwellings increased in two The value of the dwelling increased and the tax rate has been increased
 Alderman Cornell has estimates that the rent payers their nens to their landlords equal TWENTY MILLS over their payments of eight years ago.
 That is to say taking valuation and increased tax rate together and reducing them terms the Ira charge to the rent the difference between 16 mills eight years ago and 2 mills today It is costing the rent nae more than twice much for his him eight years ago-nearly twice much.
 Just what does payer have o turn over o his lord for his taxes?
 The tax rate is substantially $22 thousand
 The cheapest dwelling which anybody lives at ts i,o may be assessed for little as S3OOO
 The payment S66 which mora tban ono o5+ or the earnings of the average rent payer
 The extra amount of payment the Administration machine has built during two years probably $66 $33 year.
 That sort of thing get itself many times repealed without serious upon the poceboo the who pays rent.
 But the renpayer pays other taxes which he cannot es He buys food clohng luxuries his neghbor the merchants who also pays taxes and who also charge their taxes into the goods they sell.
 The merchants the agents of their customers to pay part of the taxes which the city obtains customers
 The high municipal government ridgeport be- ing charged into the goods that go the city, considerably the high cost of living everywhere.
 It is exaggeraon to say that the average payer who has wife and two three children pays city treasury not less than $i20 year, onereenh of his tire earnings
 n spite simple truths the Administration machine proceeds upon the theory that the believe that they do pay any taxes.
 Mayor Wilson says effect to the payers "What you what costs the city pay out of the rich people, What you care they soaked" <
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