The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-08-04
What Others Think
Excessive Taxation

THE average person thinks that if the tax collector
never calls upon him that he, personally, does not
pay any taxes-he fools himself, or he allows
others to fool him, because every time he buys any
thing he pays his share of the tax bill Of the nation
If he lives in house, clothes, eats food,
travels from place to another, buys newspaper,
goes to the movies, in fact spends money in way,
he cannot help paying his share of the taxes which
government lays property and industry.
The taxes collected by government are included in
the price of every article we buy.
Last year the total government expenditure, paid
for by taxes in effect about to be imposed was
The population of Continental United
states about 100000 900 men, women and children
This works out $100 per head for every man, woman
and child in the United States if it divided equal
ly-of course, it is not divided equally.
People who spend less money per head than do
others pay less taxes than those who spend lib
orally but in proportion to the amount that one
spends does he pay his share of the total tax bill
Industry cannot pay that $12, 100000 tax bill
out of it's own pocket-it has magican's wand to
produce $4,000 out of thin air. The only way
it get such huge Of money to pay govern
ent is by adding it to the cost of what it sells, what
that may be, and you and pay our part OF it
whenever we buy anything.
You will notice that the tax bill amounted to %
per cent Of the national income for the year 1884, which
is little bit than one-ffth of the total income
of the nation, which the income of all its in
habtants.
The absorption, of such large proportion of the
national income in cost of government means that
there is just that much less to be employed in private
enterprise.
One of the reasons why there not enough jobs
to go around at the present time is because such
large proportion of income is taken away from
private employment to be used by government in
necessary and wasteful ways.
Who is responsible for this state of affairs? Why
of United States RESPONSIBLE
it.
We have demanded lot of services from
government which longer afford. We have
allowed and indeed encouraged the politician to
ward political services to himself personally and to
the party generally by place on the public pay roll
Zone adult out of each ten adult persons in the country
is the public pay roll) and have done this
largely because have been told, and believed that
somebody else, and not ourse is paying tax bills
for Don't let "kid" ourselves any longer with
this deuson-the only people who don't pay taxes
dead ones
If you want to spend your money instead of hav-
ing the government spend it for you, you know what
you have to do about it.
You and your friends, and your employees must
organize to elect your political representatives per-
sons who have will pledge themselves to rigid econ
omy in the administration Of public affairs-national
state and locaand if they break their pledges to you
you must replace them with representatives who will
keep their promses-Ex.
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We have noticed several young fellows from Win
dom recently who have gone work on farms dur
ing the harvest. Somehow other we have a kind
spot in our hearts for the high school boy who goes
out and plows corn, helps put up hay shocks grain
during the summer vacation Maybe it's because our
own summers were spent that way It's wonderful
thing for young to learn to think of dollars in
terms OF muscular effort and perspiration. A sum-
mer on the farm is just as valuable education
year in college-Cottonwood County Citizen.
merchant told he had month to Eve-caed in
lawyer and said: elk it so that my overdraft at
the bank goes to my wife-she can explain it. My
equity in goes to my He will then have to
go to work to keep up the payments Give my good
will to the supply houses. They took some awful
chances on me and entitled to something. NY
equipment you can give to the junkman he had had
MS eye on 1t for some tme-and want six of my
creditors for pail bearers They have carried me so long
they might as well finish the job."-Ex.
Sunday. Mrs. ia Thursday