Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-11-09
Congress Hesifates.

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But regardless of the fact that our
own country has already had consid-
cradle experience with sales taxes as
imposed by the Acts of 1917 and 1918
the administration of which has been
satisfactory and successful, there
seems to be a hesitancy on the part
of Congress to do away with the oner-
Gus, annoying lines of taxes so diff
cult and expensive to collect, and to
adopt instead-even on trial-some
sort of sales-tax plan.
Chambers of commerce, business
and commercial organizations of all
sorts throughout the entire country,
and many individuals generally, have
a1vocated the proposition as the most
intelligent, fairest, and least oppres-
sive of all forms of taxation. The in
dorsement of many others would no
doubt follow if more thought were
given by the mass of taxpayers to the
fact that the men of modest incomes
are really finally paying the big sur
taxes of the rich-for it is a fact that
the more the latter's incomes are
taxed, the more is added to the price
of the product from which such in
comes are derived. A sort Of endless
chain affair, and veritably a chain
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How much better would be a more
universal distribution of the burden
for We must have taxes, and incomes
must be taxed. How much better it
would be to have a simple, workable
plan that would not cause hindrance
in investmnets, withdrawal and with
holding CT capital from Industrial
and the incidental tightness
and tenseness that make living condi-
tions more or less unsatisfactory to
everybody.
Let's Try This.
r it should appear that there is
justification for hesitancy on the part
u Congress to try forthwith a general
sales-tax plan SIMILAR to that which
Canada has adopted, which taxes the
sales of middlemen as we'll as manu-
facturers, why not try the plan pro-
posed by Senator Smoot, to levy a
manufacturers and producers tax of
three per cent on goods sold for con
or use without further
process of manufacture?
Or, if not that plan, why not try a
modified general consumption or
turnover" tax plan, levying half of
one per cent, or even a quarter Of
one per cent, or such rate as may be
estimated to produce the required
amount of revenue, not to be applica-
bic to foodstuffs and products, but to
apply to expenditures.
The proof of any tax plan is in the
thereof-and in the working
only. Hence my belief in giving the
sales-tax theories a test.
IAdCu SCoCfAIOlIIGL III Ol4L FdSI cur
ooration knows that simplicity in
our affairs, the elimination
f red tape and of complex regula-
lions that can be understood only by
about which even ex-
Oerts disagree, so that regulations
nave to be further regulated would
mean more success in our business;
in other words, more prosperity in
way of dividends" for all.
So it is up to US to strive toward
time when thrift and production may
receive every encoura cement from
our board of directors; when useless
extravaganza may be in the same de-
gree discouraged. If we work to-
gether conscientiously toward that
end, we shall surely again see normal
times, reduction of prices, and the
sort of prosperity to which we are en-
titled.
We can be just as patriotic in peace
times as we were in war times. And
now, as much as in the days Of war,
is the time when the United States Of
Incorporated, "needs
friend
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