Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-06-22

1G0-Corporation tax .........S 20.95l 7S0N
19ll-Corporation tax ......... 33.5l6g.6.59
19l2-COrpOration tax ......... 2S .5s3 303.13
l9l3-Corporation tax ......... g. COG 299.&
19l4-Corporation excise tax. 1861 oi12l
19l4-Corporation income tax 30 1866 81
19l4-lndividual income tax. 2S.253.53f.S5
l9lj-Emergency revonue...... 5000 1868,
l9l5-Corporation income tax 80 5G.l7
l9l5-lndividual income tax. 4l.0461G209
l9l6-Emergency reyenue..... S4.27S 302. l3
19l6-Corporation income tax 56.g936J..9s
l9l6-Individual income tax. 67.9i3 5s4.63
l9l7-Emergency revenue..... 95.231653.SS
1g7-Corporation income tax 179,512 ssh SO
19l7-Indvidual income tax. lS0,l0S 34o1O
19lS-Income and excess prof
its tax OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2,s2S. 800 ssi2S
19l9-Income and excess prof
Its tax OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2,5s6,OuS, 1910
The number of corporations max
ing income tax returns showing tax
able income, aggregated 5249S in the
calendar year 1909, and that number
increased 10 1920 for the calendar
year 1917. The number Of individuals
making personal income tax returns
aggregated 3J7 ,J9S for the calendar
year 1913, and that number increased
10 3,472, $50 for the calendar year 1917.
For the fiscal year 1909 the total
ordinary receipts aggregated $GO3, $50
1884, Of which $3OO,7l1 ,9339j came
from customs duties, S246 PIP, 643.59
came from internal revenue, and the
balance was received from the sale of
public lands and other miscellaneous
items; whereas, for the fiscal year
ending June 80 1910, the total re
ceipts from customs amounted TO Ssh
457, S67.39, while the internal revenue,
including income taxes and corpora
tion and excess profits taxes, amounted
to $3.50 ,95O612.05.
so you will see that until 1910 the
money you paid toward the support
Of the government was slipped away
from you SO easily that you hardly
knew anything about 1t. You did not
know that you were paying taxes 10
the national government.
Indirect taxation is the most Sc
ductive form of raising public rev.
enue. You never came in contact with
the federal government except when you
bought a postage stamp. But now you
know it every time you buy drink at
a soda fountain, or q bottle of medi-
cine, or sand a telegram, or make a
long-distance telephone call, or per-
form any one Of score of other nor
NAL activities of daily life. Some
thing must be put in the kitty for the
government. It's annual rakeoff runs
into the billions. You pay it and the
government. spends it.
But all that part Of the party is
about over. now. The oysters have
been eaten and put in the bill. They
must be paid for. 1t is perfectly clear
that in the future by far the greater
part Of the revenue required for con
Quoting the public business must come
from direct taxes. 1t is also clear
that the ordinary expenses for run
ming the government will in future
probably exceed four billion dollars a
year. That is a lot of money TO take
out of your pockets, and mine. Hadn't
we better see what is done with it, and
whether we can save any Of IT? Con
gress, which Is very far-sighted, and
able, when Its own skin Is concerned.
to distinguish a hawk from a hand
saw at a very great distance, is be.
ginning TO take notice.