Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-11-17
CAN REDUCE TAXES.

INV AsL1SS I hALtJs
Now after the good old cleo
ton time is over and the state
going back to prosperity and
lower taxes, let us give this tax
problem a little study and see if
not everyone of us can help to
reduce taxes, for there has to be
a saving made some way or the
taxes will eat you out of house
and home.
1t is absurd to expect either
party to reduce taxes after all.
Part of the people voted this big
tax on themselves, in form of
liberty and victory bonds, state
bonds, road bonds, city bonds,
school district bonds and private
bonds for autoes and needless
extravaganza in general.
Now let us all get in and work
and save and eventually we will
have lower taxes again. We
may have to forget our little old
gas wagon. We may be able to
run away from prosperity with
car but you can't come back in
it.
In our county offices, there
is a good chance to save taxes,
not by cutting salaries, but by
electing the right man for the
job, and by paying him for his
service literally for nobody ever
saved a penny by hiring cheap
inefficient labor.
Take for instance the probate
judge, any time a county elects
merely a politician for that of
flee instead of man with good
legal ability, with love for work,
honest and fair, that county is
burdening itself with a fearful
direct and indirect tax. In the
course of time every piece of
real property in any county has
to be probated, numbers of
times, and if not done property
as the case has been only to
frequently in the past, when a
taxpayer wants to sell or get q
loan on his property he finds
that his title is faulty and has to
pay a $4,000 or more to clear
the same. Some tax, when it is
just as easy to nominate a COM
petant man and elect him in pref
erance to a figure head just for
politics sake.
Further let us not have the
sheriffs officers chasing all over
this county on some fool war;
rant, let US be honest and peace
full with our neighbors and again
we save a big tax.
Now let us not ask the county |
commissioners for a donation on
every little project, it may have
merit, and it may not. Don't |
that a new board going
in can be worked easy. You will
be mistaken. If you want low
ed taxes consider this.
In the recorders office a big
direct tax can he saved by the I
not recording instru-
ments for record, unless the in
stument is drawn up right and
what it should. In the
ong past Smith could deed,
mortgage, lease or most any way
Jones' title, by error
Of course, and the county re-
,order mechanically recorded
same, yet the county spends an
nually hundreds of dollars in
axes for plats, for tax rolls. All
that the recorder needs to do is
check the description and save a
good big tax.
In every office, the same saw
ng can be made by electing and
hiring good men or women for
the job, and paying what they
are worth. You can't even for
public jobs, hire a ten dollar a
lay man for five and get away
With it very long.
Further let us see if we cannot
ave a lot of taxes in our local
,ity governments, on our school
boards, let us cut out the unnec-
.ssary expenses and use only
me half as much horse sense do
ng our public duty as we use in
,ur own business and taxes will
,e lower.
Let our slogan lie Economy
md Thrift and lower taxes.
FELIX MARTZEN,