East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-09-03
HARD ON THE MAN IN BETWEEN

HE following editorial on tax revision Washing
ton of particular interest and is here reproduced
for the reason gives the very important repub
hcan subject that is being commented upon
very freely
Tax revision as the house ways committee
devised and to the senate affords relief at the bottom
of the pyramid and at the Both at the bottom and the top
of incomes there organizations communities of interest
groups and solidarity of interest
At the organizations of money the bottom organ
izaons labor The granted reductions taxation
heads of families with incomes under $4,000 The reduction
calculated for married taxpayer without considering exemp
ton for dependents, is $50 year.
That reduces tax of S24 of $76 $56 The
relief the first almost out the and the lat
ter is real relief.
great middle classification and resumes its functions when
reaches incomes Of s660OO and From that point upward
thy mans burden with increasing reduction as MS income IN
The has taken high So cent Of
mans income 1t is proposed to take than 80
cent in surtaxes any income.
At the top of the income classification there organza
ons of with They called various things all of
which grouped in the convenient terms of radcam under
the term capitalism
These organizations tight capable of acting
geher Just the OF low saared men are capable
of working together Many farmers will be found in the class
under $4,000 The farmers will this that they all will
There will be artisans aborers many
trades union men, Any married taxpayer who SIS
win impress him decided change and which, presumably
will incline him towards the authority which helped him out
know the vote Of the country There the with the
dinner pail the farmer with Ford phonograph and nearly
all the people who have of getting mad two four
years and causing landslides.
paigns of comfortable incomes alarm at
ideas and give campaign funds which will be devoted what
they hope will be sound conservative government.
The reV1sonists, politically, have
given the contributors rejoice that the down
from possible 62 to maximum of 80 and have given the
vote reason to think that consderae has lifted
burden. The vote $40 reduction and
not glare at the reduction the surtax the
We do not put past the politically wise congressman
have had this possible development squirting at
the and then the bottom But what of the who
than $4,000 and less than S66000 Nothing of them
They before partly because the three casscatons
they the least important politically They do not kick into
campaign funds heavily they do not kick tickets They
cans and they expected being republicans and the
democrats to go being democrats
They not organized except politically, and politically
they supposed be set their and habits of thought
Occasionally they do something such turning progressive but
that is only whales age Sometimes they called
the bone of the nation but sometimes think the
bone chiefly in the head Anyway they will stand for it
they will have for the present scheme of revision
considered sound and foolproof by the revsonists
The with income of $4,000 able to stand
the prevailing high taxation the with income between
$4,000 and $66 00 More ab but he relief and the other
does Proporonately the latter He the
substance of the nation and the bone.
The Oregonian hears that during the last Round
people without despite the fact the
headquarters had plenty of available The people
question evidently did of the head
quarters and the work does Why not have big signs
calling attention the headquarters and smaller signs many
places telling people seek through the headquarters
would be especially appropriate have such signs freely dis
hotels because the stranger will
odaOns at the hotels People should not be allowed to
for when there available and in handling
the problem be borne mind stranger stranger
not familiar with the situation here.