The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-12-12
INCOME TAX BILL, 1
AS IS INTENDED
s COMBS OHIO
Big, Rich Manufacturers and
Money Lenders Can and Will
Dodge AS They Have Done in
the Past.
LADS PAY ON OVER $500,
FAMILY MEN OVER $1,000

There has been new tax measure
introduced into the Ohio Legislature
that will awaken the citizens of this
State. It is an income tax providing
for the payment of taxes on all in
comes over $500 in the case of an un-
married man, and on all over $1,000
in case of married man. This means
taxing Ohio citizens to the last limit;
piling on of taxes to the breaking
point.
Some years ago Henry George
wrote a series Of books advocating
collecting taxes on LAND VALUES,
and he called his system SINGLE
TAX. The writer never knew man
who studied, carefully, this series Of
books, following through the argu-
ments closely, who did not accept the
system as promising relief to the
present burden Of taxation.
The present search with fine
tooth comb for something new to tax,
and admitted necessity for such ac-
ton, the acknowledgement that the
State and it's municipalities are bank
rupt and that the schools, working on
a parallel line of taxing and spending
money, are also financial wreck,
should lead citizens to stop and look.
There is something wrong, and it is
none too soon to make an effort to
find out what and where it is.
When Ohio Grange Master spoke in
the Court House last fail on "Classi-
fed Taxation" he gave much data to
show that the farmer and small house
owner paid their full share Of taxes,
that they could not escape, and that
the big manufacturer and money
lender was the guilty dodger. The
history of the world for past ages
confirms this condition. And Medina
farmers and small home owners need
not expect any reform in this matter
unless they themselves institute it.
With these facts in mind it seems
an opportune time for farmers and
small home owners to study the
SINGLE TAX system as promulgated
by Henry George and see if it offers
any method by which the larger busi-
ness interests can be made to do
their part. By the Single Tax system
no one can dodge, for he must pay
the rental value per year of the lands
he is using. If it is small home his
tax will not be as large as now; the
farmer may pay as much or more
than he pays now on his farm hold
ings, but his total taxes will be less
for now he is not only paying on his
lands but in dozen other ways that
he cannot figure in totals, subter-
fuge used to blind him by the big in.
terests. By the Single Tax system he
will know just what he does pay and
he can then determine for himself
if he is paying too much.
The farmer and small home owner
should post himself on the possibili-
ties of Single Tax, for unless there is
a reform some where he will soon be
squeezed to. death. And the worst
feature of the present method comes
in not knowing how much he pays
where he pays it, OF to what use it is
being put.
Big interests will spend thousands
of dollars to put scheme through
that will catch the little fellow anc
let the big fellow escape; a study o1
the Single Tax system will show
small home owners and farmers how
to catch the big fellow as he's sneak
ing through the net on them.