The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
HOW TO CUT DOWN
 YOUR INCOME TAX
For Every Victory Liberty Bond Bought You Pay That Much Less in Income Taxes
 Next Spring.

DO YOU WANT TO CUT DOWN YOUR INCOME TAX?
 It can be done And there are mighty few of us who would not like to see taxes, including income taxes, somewhat reduced.
 After you had worked and wrestled around with that income tax and got it all figured out. how did you feel about 1t? Didn't it sort of shock you when you multiplied to get that old six per cent?
 Didn't the realization that you would have to pay out just so many cold iron men" sort of startle you!
 Yes, it did most of us. Whether that income was $1,00O or $10,000 1t came with distinct shock, that dis covery that we were then and there indebted to our Uncle Samuel by just so many dollars that must be paid
 However. big as the income tax was. 1t would have been a great deal big ger if you and all your friends and rel atives and everyone elses friends and relatives had not bought so heavily of Liberty Bonds in the past.
 It is also easy to see that unless the American public, which includes you and me and all of us. buys heavily of the Victory Liberty Loan, the income tax and the various other government taxes will not grow any lighter very soon.
 Every man who wants the income tax rate to come down before Jan uary 1. 1920. ought to buy just as lib eraliy of Victory Liberty Bonds as pos sibie.
 But what has the income tax got to do with Liberty Bond issuesf More than a little. All this extra money that is being raised in this country for Government purposes is going, di- rectly or indirectly. as the case may be, to aid in payment of the war debt.
 And, if they are not paid out of loans. they must be paid out of taxes. To attempt to pay these debts of by straight taxation would be crushing taxation. It simply could not be done. The country Is not wealthy enough, great as are it's riches and wonderful as it's resources are. to stand such crushing blows of taxation as would be necessary to clean up all the debts, right on the reel by taxation alone.
 So the government is lessening the immediate blow as much as possible, by floating this bond issue and thus spreading the cost of the war over the years of the future and make the an- nual burden just so much lighter.
 Therefore that income tax blank over which you slaved and sweated awhile back was a mighty good argu- ment for the Victory Liberty Loan if you will just look at 1t that way. The six per cent net income figure was . mighty biting argument.
 And if there was anything on that income tax blank, saying anything about the government ever giving any of that income tax money back to you, well. nobody saw anything of the kind.
 Just recall that the Liberty Bond money comes back to you, on the sol cAiA hAbahioc VI ii&c OuiiSu OIdIeS OoF- srnment. the Government that never broke promise. A tax paid is money gone. but Liberty Bond is an invest ment.
 Nor was there anything on that in. come tax blank about the government paying you cent of interest on the income tax payments. No indeed, you were paying the Government--an no mention was made of any return, or of any interest.
 A Liberty Bond is an interest-bear- ing security. It is an investmenl and not tax.
 To lessen the income tax and other taxes that must be paid in the future buy Liberty Bonds. all you can of the Victory Loan
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