Indiana daily times., 1920-10-27
GOODRICH TAX
LAW HITS EVERY
PART OF STATE
Not One County Escapes EN
0rbitant Horizontal.
creaseS in Taxation.
ONLY HOPE IN BALLOT

Reports from various parts of the
State show that not a single county is
escaping the exorbitant increases in tax
&ation resulting from the Goodrich tax
& law and that if the State gets four years
of government under Warren 7. McCray
he same state Of affairs may be expect
y led to continue.
81 Where taxing used to be incidental. 1t
81 Is now growing into a serious menace,
E citizens of many counties say, for the
new tax law works like a separator-it
succeeds admirably in separating the
II taxpayer from his money.
II 1t gets the CREAM" but the taxpayer
/ never gets any butter or other product
H manufactured from 1t.
zt Apparently there is no remedy in sight
81 but the forcing out of the centralized"
81 crowd from the Statehouse and the return
Of a safe and sane law such as is advo
Gated by DIR. Carlton B. MeCulloch.
FULTON COUNTY
j CASE SAMPLE.
i Up in Fulton County lives John p. Apt,
who owns a farm OF sixty acres.
In 1919 he paid s6221 tax on this land,
exclusive OF personal
On the same land in 1920 he paid S71.60,
but in 1921 he will have to pay SHAFT
almost double.
Take another case, J. V. PownalI of
i the same county paid $176.10 in 1919
In 1920 he paid S25S.30 and in 1921 he
= will have to pay S4O4-s5-
1t Is the small property owner who is
a being made the goat"
The claims Of the Republicans that
#only the corporations are hard hit fs
S not true and the man who thinks 1t is
I'M -. 60
Z when he goes TO pay his taxes.
In Hartford City the valuation Of tax
ables was increased to S5,352 e55 from
3 g, ,05s, 100, this exclusive Of corporation
! taxables, which shows that the small"
taxpayer is the one who is carrying the
burden in the heat of the day.
HEAVY INCREASE IN
= BLACKFORD COUNTY.
In Blackford County the Goodrieh-Mc
Cray system is piling things up.
- Under a Democratic administration in
this county in 1919 the total taxes paid
were SS7s s.e96.74. Under the 1920 Good
rich law, the total valuation was S30, ,130,-
4e5.
The total to be paid in 1921 is figured
at $50, 4,591.63.
The increase in round numbers is
'@s175, 500.
In Orange County some townships pay
a double rate.
Persons in one township paying on
$1,000 worth of property next year will
pay s2S, in comparison to $3.50 paid
the year before.
In another township in the same coun-
ty the rate figured S12.T0 last year and
$21.40 next year on the $1,000.
Jay County taxpayers are advised to go
to the county treasurer and find out how
much tax increase they will have to pay
then go and vote
Adam Baldaun who lives in that
county, owns 131 acres of land.
The valuation for taxing purposes In
1918 was $3.50 and on which he paid
s17O23.
In 1921 the valuation Of this same land
will be $17,795 and he will have to pay
s239sS taxes.
The same proportion holds good over
the county.
HIGH COST
OF aIIsRULE.
In Henry County the high cost Of
Republican misrule is graphically Illus
trated.
Within four years 1t has cost this
county an increase of 100000.
The assessed valuation Of real estate
in Newcastle was S4,692.420 In 1917.
In 1920 the valuation was raised to
S15.319, $50.
The Tux amount IN these two PERIODS
are S1s9O6241 in 1917 and S341 ,624S6 to
be paid next year
In White County the Monticello Herald,
a Republican paper, is supporting the
Goodrich -McCray regime.
The White County Democrat calls at
to the fact that in 1919 under
the old taxing law the Herald was as
sessed $3.50 and the Democrat $1,000.
Under the new tax law in 1920 the as
sessments were: Herald. $3.50; Demo-
! erat. $500
For the 1921 assessment the figures
n show tie Herald is assessed at $1,000
and the Democrat at 5000.
4 The Democrat calls attention to the
ii fact that the Herald made quite a jump
.l from $3.50 to $1,000 and intimates that
y this assessment may be made even
y 8ligher.
3 From every point in the State comes
reports Of the exorbitant assessments
Under the Goodrich law.
Tax conditions are in a tangle and
s here seems to be no hope of untangling
hem under the present law.