Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-04-02
NEED FOR STATE
INCOME TAX
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taxpayers to some extent The bill
calls for exemptions up to $1,000 on
incomes for single persons and $4,000
to married people. Those who are
opposed to income taxes naturally
are trying to cut down the exemptions
so that nearly everybody will have to
pay and thus make it less popular
and more difficult of passage, which
includes both the tax bill before the
legislature now and the constitutional
amendment.
H. G. Miller of Mortified, who said
he is farmer, talked against the in
come tax bill and stressed the point
that Minnesota cannot continue with
taxes as they are. He cited the low
butterfat prices and said that some
thing must be done to reduce taxes
and save the farmers and he kept on
talking about the hard times and
against the income tax, apparently as
Stunning that the farmers would have
to pay income taxes. When asked
by one of the authors of the bill if
he knew what the bill consisted of,
he said mo-"
Afraid Taxes Will be Passed On.
B. A. Malone of Hennepin county,
who also said he was a farmer, plead
ed against tax spending and said that
this tax bill is like the Wickersham
report-it is very voluminous. He
maintained that income taxes would
be passed On to the consumer eventu-
ally, evidently laboring under the
illusion that we must bow to the
wealthy. He said the taxes in his
own community had been cut and that
other communities must do likewise.
Mr. Knapp from the St Paul associ-
alton, an organization of business and
professional men, said that there must
be proper safeguards against excess
sive rates and that income taxes
should be in lieu of other taxes. He
also stated that this bill has been so
carefully drawn that there is no es-
Gaping any income taxes under it's
provisions, thereby commencing the
men who have been instrumental in
drawing up the bill.
Mr.. Owen of the Webb Publishing
Co., st. Paul, said that he agrees in
principle with a state income tax but
stated that an income tax will simply
be another tax. Minnesota now has
tax delinquency in the amount of
$37 100000, and the legislature should
put its foot down against expendi-
lures. A representative of the Farm
ers' Union stated that his organization
has for some years gone on record as
being against the ad valorem tax and
for income taxes. He said that sens
ible business men are reducing ex-
penses and that it is just as possible
for commonwealth to do likewise.
He also added that the principle of
an ad valorem tax-the real estate
tax-is absolutely unjust and that
values are often only those of the
assessors.
A Mr.. Miller from Redwood county.
who said he was the owner of 1000
acres of land in Redwood and Renville
counties, spoke about the high taxes in
his community, stating that 35 years
ago the tax on those 1000 acres was
S625 while last year it was over Sc, 900.
He told of life insurance companies
having withdrawn from the field of
farm loans and that there are so
many taxes on Minnesota farmers now
that they cannot continue to exist
under present conditions. Like sew
eral of the other speakers he voiced
opposition to the proposed state in