The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-31

in the DAILY WORKER day
Taxation, Soviet and Tsarst
An independent calculation based estimates of the total
national income and present after all necessary
allowances adjustments present Budget
SIS per cent of the pre-war Budget
This impression burden though by
Russia itself that present taxation is heavier than
This impression is because the burden though reduced
third is thrice hard to bear First the
dated to and absorbed v conditions Of life They are only
just emerging from the primitive stage
secondary stage of in kind Thirdly because this
taxation largely substitution of direct indirect
This though really relieves
peasant makes him realize what the burden Abolition
alcoholic drinks per strength a
which has immensely helped national recovery will in
4roduce national but its fiscal effect has been
REQUIRE TO millions per annum new drec taxation to replace
the national from vodkaand this does not include
$50 millions of local The peasant paid this
900 900 millions far more readily than his present 100000 mil
lions direct taxation.
Economies
In order to tighten the burden and to balance The Budget
Russia has severely reduced expenditure Military expendi
elsewhere explained have been greatly reduced The
Red Army expenditure can be estimated as about oneth
expenditure Further expenditure on
the educational experiments of Communism
have been removed in the first the New Economic Policy
and reduced in the second by policy of
Public services lighting transport all charged for
elsewhere excepting educational and medical care which re-
mains free.
The Government departments those enterprises
abolished or put on business basis trusts etc. had their
STATS reduced by half Finally the Central Budget relieved
of expenditure that could advanageousy left local
Budgets-such education, public health, roads
We in fact estimate that State expenditure has been
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there does not to be region in which be still
further reduced 1t is indeed the avowed intention
considerably at the earliest possible respect of
education public health and also respect
national debt be incurred for reequpmen Of industry
agriculture.
To these economies added the economies
reconstruction originally effected the Revolution
the abolition the national debt the interest which had
400 million per before the
The more than doubled this in interest its
foreign debt of nine miards and in addition 16
millions of internal debtso that the
have been least 1920 millions. saving
Tsars subsidies of So million Church.
16 millions to the Crown and Court
Corruption
saving( important any has been the sue
campaign carried Communism against corruption
1t impossible make in guresone
say that the Tsarist ociadom the whole
Soviet ofcadom the whole conscientious
Communism fraudulent officials Communists
Communists severely sentenced Though there
day relaxation from this extreme rgour the efficiency
probty of Soviet officials maintained at high stand
Add this that the total expenditure administration
police udicaure central government generally which
millions Tsarsm to-day eckoned pre-war
hles 100 million
Direct Taxes
The at present in force
ID The Income Tax falling the townspeope we'll
to-do, producing in 1924 about 63 millions
@ The Industrial Tax which produced about 6S millions,
paid profits of all financial Industrial
enterprises and is graduated to the character Of their
production of trading uxries rated high
est down. This is, of generally
the consumer efforts made check this
private enterprises serving useful pub
purposes On the whole it is estimated that wo-hs of