Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-02-10
Chairman of House Com
mitee Says Step Would
Defeat Party
URGES REDUCTION
Suggests Higher Levies on Whiskey,
Tobacco and Passenger Autos
Urges Excess Profits Repeal.

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Washington, Feb. l0.-Warnins
The House that the mounting wave
of high taxation would no roll back
without q sharp and sweeping reduc-
ton in Government expenditures,
Chairman Good, of the Appropria-
tions Committee, declared yesterday
the time had come to call halt.
In his warning Mr.. Good came out
clnphatically against the proposed
sales tax. declaring:
"The party. that is so foolish as to
place a sales tax on teh backs and
bellies of the American people would
go down to humiliating defeat, BE-
cause the people of The United States
would NOD stand for -
Figures almost too big for corl-
prehension by the average man were
hurled over. the heads of members
as Mr.. Good, in dramatic fashion,
told of the vast sums expended and
the growing appeals for more. There
.yas shout of approval when he in
sisted that, the appropriations bills
must be passed before the change OF
administrations .Marh a. 50 that the
trainers of new sariff law may
know the amount Of cloth out of
which they must patch the nations
coat.
LaSim. down the definite policy
that expenses. must De cut before
there i, talk Of lower taxes, Mr..
Good insisted tha. appropriations for
the year beginning rext July should
hc kept within $500 100000, yir-
tually the sum recommended in the
hig supply measures for that period.
Mr.. Goc1's plea for. Government
economy was made IL presenting the
first deficiency bill for the present
year, carrying a total Of S203.OooOoo
Democratic members of the commit
tee DECLARED there would be other
deficiency sums, and Representative
Hyrncs, Democrat, South Carolina,
declared direct appropriations tins
year already had passed the $5,ooo,'
600, 900 mark. This stupendous sum
could best be understood. Mr.. Byrncs
added, by the fact that in order to
meet it the Government must levy an
average tax Of $50 on every man,
wonan and child in America.
In suggesting methods of raising
revenue without making the burden
on the individual rore severe than
it has been since thu early days oE
The war, Mr.. Good said he doubted il
tariff law could raise more thar
$500 ,oc0, GOO without disturbing in
tcrnational trade relations.
Urging repeal ot the excess prof
rs tax, Mr.. Good said:
Eve shall not need the revenues
that have been brought in by the
excess profits tax if we will cut dowr
appropriations. There is where We
can pause to effect y saving. 1t vii
be a system Of economy and th'
financing OF temporary loans. such as
our certificates Of Indebtedness, the
war savings stamps ard the Victor!
loan. 1t ought to be done by borrow
ing mohey, rather than by taxing
the American people as we have
done in the last two years"
Mr.. Good said the higher tax O
s6.40 gallon. should be imposed OF
withdrawal of liquors from bondet
observation-disclosures taken out fo'
medicinal and used for beverage Pur
poses. By lifting the tax from S2.2'
ha figured. the Treasury ravenu
would be increased from $50,0oo'W
to 100000. BY demanding tn
same tax on the tobacco industr.
that Greet Britain collects, Mr.. Goo
said, Treasury receipts from tm
commodity would i~mp from $500
10000 to $500. 10000 year. II
also advocated higher tax on pas
senger carrying automobiles, fgurin
on revenue from this source Q
shout 100000 COO, half Of whic
should 90, he thought, to the road
being used almost exclusively BY sue
vehicles