Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-03-05

| severe penalties arc imposed Tor any
violation Of the proposed tax measure,
these being made gross mlsdemeanors
subject to penalty Of n $1,000 fine
or one year in Jail.
Seattle retail merchants who at.
tended the hearing on the bill de.
clared that II enacted as drafted the
bill would find virtually every mer.
chant In the state in jail within a
short time. as the provision that
stamps must be 80 attached to all
goods listed as requiring them. that
neither steam nor water would remove
them, is something impossible to do.
This would require that all candy bars
not wrapped, silk hosiery, ETC., must
be SO stamped that they cannot be
removed.
In stamping candy bars, It was de-
clared, the stamp would have to be
attached so that the consumer would
be forced to eat the stamp with the
candy. Retailers Of silk hose also
charge that by so attaching stamps
to these, every woman in the state
would Immediately "go on the war
path" N
The tentative rates drafted call for
cent tax on cigars selling for 10
cents or less: 2 cents on 10 to 20.
centers, graduating up to cents on
50-centers. GRADUATED tobacco and
snuff would be taxed to the same
rates.
Tax Rates Outlined.
Silk and silk mixture hosiery would
be taxed at a rate of 10 cents when
sold for less than 81; Is cents be.
tween 81 and $3.50. and upwards to
% cents when sold for 50 or more.
Nickel candy bars would be taxed
2 cents and all packages or bars sell
ing from s to 25 cents would carry
the same rate. On boxes Of candies
the tax would be cents when sold
for so cents and less than 75 cents.
Above rs cents the tax would range
to s cents. Chewing gum would be
taxed / cent for each scent package
OR sale.
Cosmetics, cold creams, pomade,
face and hand lotions, powder, lip
stick, rouge. perfume, hair oils and
tonics would be taxed l cent on 10 to
25-cent purchases up to maximum
Of 5 cents on 81 sales.
Rates on radios start at 81 on sets
selling for s25 or less and range up
to SIS on sets selling for 5000 or more.
The act would be administered by
the State Tax commission and mer-
chants and dealers required to pur-
chase stamps from the state and at.
fix them. to the merchandise to be
taxed.
A bill Of few words but sweeping
import was filed in the house by
Representative Lindsay as solution
OF vexing taxation problems. The
measure would entirely wipe out con.
stitutional barriers to new tax legis.
lation.
Short Bill Filed.
"Shall taxes in Washington be levied
according to law?" is the only ques.
ton in the bill.
Other house bills filed included:
Buttefworth, King, including dis
abled veterans of the World war In
tho list of organizations entitled to
use county relief funds.
McCracken, opening the Columbia
river to sport fishermen at all times.
Sale of so-called wine tonics and
other medicinal preparations contain
ing alcohol, which are found capable
Of being used as beverages, would be
prohibited under bill introduced by
this senate committee on medicine,
dentistry, pure foods and drugs.
The house backed its appropriations
committee in breaking with the senate
and passed the house draft of the ON
nibus appropriations bill, totaling $46,-
220,03151, by vote Of rs to 5.
or this total, items amounting to
s6,075, 1867 are former nonappropria-
ton items, included for the first time
as the result of recent supreme court
decision in the Washington state col.
lege case.
Current school funds and federal
funds allotted to the state college and
other state activities make up the bulk
of these added items.
House Passes Appropriations.
The house bill. in comparable items.
is about S25O,O00 higher than Cover
nor Haruey's budget.
The senate had completed q draft,
except for educational institutions, ap-
proximately s2,ooO,OOO below the gov.
ernor's figures when the house broke |