Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-02-26

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recommended by the advisory Ia
commission. The committee revise
the rates in the commissions person;
income tax bill and drafted a subst
tute corporate income tax measure.
Advocates of the income tax bill
also count on passing both in til
senate, but expect close battle O
the subject of rates.
AS drafted by the advisory tax con
mission, the rates of personal income
in the $4,000 to $4,000 class ayerag
about three times those of the fec
eral income tax, while in the highe
income classes this difference disar
pears. Although the senate revenue
and taxation committee made sligh
changes in the rate base, this dis
parity continues.
The bill requires taxes on income.
of more than $500 in the case O.
single persons and of more than $14O(
in married couples.
Organized labor is asking exemp
tons of $500 and $500, the federal
figures, and the Washington tax equal
ization council $1,000 and $500.
Income Tax Favored.
Organized business is likewise op-
posing the s per cent rate provided in
the companion measure for a cor
porate income tax, claiming that, SUI
perimposed on the federal tax, 1t would
prove too heavy burden for bust
ness under present conditions.
Advocates of the two bills expect
to bring them out as companion meas
'ures, on the same calendar, but look
for the closest vote on the personal
income tax bill.
A combination turnover, sales and
privilege tax bill, approved as to con-
stitutionality two weeks ago by the
attorney-generars office, and regard.
ed as a contemplated administration
proposal, has never reached the legis.
lature, nor has Governor Hartley an
nounced that he planned to sponsor
the bill.
A plea for an international confer.
ence to stabilize silver as medium
Of exchange with benefits to Wash
ington state through trade with the
orient led, the house to pass reso-
luton memorializing congress for such
= conference. The resolution was
sent to the senate.
Minor Senate Legislation.
During the past six weeks, the sen.
Ute has found time to enact from
lmong its own bills measures to ban
he throwing Of lighted cigar and
cigarette stubs from windows of air.
planes while passing over grain fields
IF forests; bill prohibiting too much
wood alcohol in automobile hoods; a
ix-round boxing bill; granting permits.
ion to school boards to rent play
fields to athletic associations; a toll
ridge franchise across the Narrows |
t Tacoma; an old age pension meas.
re; prohibiting trucks on the high.
'ays on Sundays and holidays be-
ween the hours Of II a. m. and II
/. M; authorizing street sprinkling
small towns; pairing, down of the
Maximum levies for road and bridge
nd county road district funds; an in.
rease Of the bridge funds in small
OWNS by one-half of u mill; but
Or substitute excise tax bill; provid.
lg millage levies to aid firemen's
ension funds; bill providing for
sustained yield Of state timber lands
n the Olympic peninsula, and vast
mount Of amendatory legislation max.
g slight changes in existing codes.
House Measures.
During the same time the house
IS passed budget control bill, which
e senate has stripped Of teeth; a
100000 road appropriation measure;
$165,O00 building appropriation for
e University of Washington; a bill
employment of aliens OIL
lblic work; bill granting fifteen
VS. leave to all public employees at
II pay to attend military encamp.
ents; bill requiring that horse
eat for sale as food be plainly label.
I; measure providing that eggs be II
oeled showing country of origin; n
ngressional reapportionment meas. =
e; clean mattress bill, a Bill pro .
biting throwing of garbage along
tie highways; three-day publica.
n of intention to marry bill; free
bile county library measure, pro.
ling for a millage levy; an anti
tol bill; measure prohibiting ship.
mt of huckleberry bushes from the
ito with license, and n number Of
proposals asked for by
ferent sections of the state or pro.
sional organizations and societies.
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