Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-26
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ATHENS, Jan. 25.-The present
tax system in Georgia is broken
down and full Of glazing injustices
and inequalities, Governor Thomas
w. Hardwick declared in his address
on ''Tax Revision" here Monday
night before the Northeast Georgia
Welfare conference.
The governor strongly denounced
the existing method of taxation and
suggested in substitution for it the
income tax, which he declares will
greatly increase the revenue Of the
state and at the same time do away
with present inequalities.
Repeated references by the speak
err to the sale of the w. & A. rental
bonds and failure Of the legislature
to abolish several Of the useless
boards and commissions" referred to
so often by the governor in his cam
paign speeches. among them the
267 trustees Of the University OF
Georgia system, led the audience to
believe that he was answering the
recent attack upon him by Senator
Watson. a..
at am not making a political de.
fense." the governor declared. III /
were il would be easy enough to do
so, The opinion of the governor OF
Georgia is only an opinion of an IN
diyidual. 1t is my opinion that
MANY of the useless bureaus ano
commissions should be abolished and
I believe they will be. The legisla'
ture was so engrossed in making
both ends meet in the state last ses'
sion that they had no time Tor any
thing else" O.
He said the sale of the w. & A.
rental bonds was made in order to
nav pensions to Confederate vet.
Grams who were in dire need. and
referred to the recent leasing or the
governors mansion for fifty years
at a total rental of nearly $2,0OO,'
600 He said that the revenue Tor
1922, which was estimated at $9,'
900 900, would pay the appropria'
tons already made with reasonable
allowance for unavoidable and neces'
sary deficiencies.
The Gasoline Tax
With reference to the One-cent-per'
gallon tax or gasoline the governor
said in answering criticism of the
act that if any man who felt that
one cent per gallon tax on gasoline
was an imposition on him as an
automobile owner, he should put ur
his car and quit operating 1t. II he
could not afford to pay the tax, ne
could not afford to own an automo
bile.
To prove his contention that the
state is being deprived of millions
on account of the inefficiency of the
property tax, he cited figures of the
| tax returns on various property for
1920. In that year household and
kitchen furniture was turned in al
SAL, 435,377, he said. This sum repre-
sented the value. of pots and pans
and other household goods. The
same year all the merchandise ir
Georgia was turned in at $77,515,
231, while responsible Industrial
magazine valued in the same year
the merchandise on Whitehall street
in Atlanta alone, at $10O,00O,00O
Stocks and bonds in Georgia were
turned in at $4,S07,964; manufac
turtles at $67,843,862; money and
solvent debts at $S1,5O0,073; shares
in banks at $45,258,067.
The governor. said that it is his
purpose to continue making his
speeches = on taxation revision in
order to let the people of Georgia
know just the state of their af
fairs.
He was introduced by c. c. Nc.
Clure, student at the University of
Georgia, and a member of the Geor.
gia legislature.