The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-02-11
Taxpayers Resolutions Hit
Nations Business Ventures
ESQ Farmers, Business Men at
Meeting Here Object to
Tax Free Securities
REPRESENTATIVES SPEAK
Interference of the Government
Blamed for Plight of
Railroads

Tax exempt securities, government
interference in business, attempts at
frustrating economic laws and gov
ernmental waste were condemned in
resolutions approved unanimously by
approximately $50 farmers and busi-
ness and professional men who at
tended a tax reduction meeting at the
Redwood Falls armory, Thursday.
Taxpayers who attended the meet
ing to hear j. F. Reed, president of
the Minnesota Taxpayers association,
were disappointed when Mr.. Reed
failed to get here, but tax matters
were thoroughly discussed by A. 4.
A. Laudon, probate judge, Michael
Kramer and L. j. Goldberg, fourteenth
district representatives, and Norman
A. Bergen, secretary of the Mime
sofa Taxpayers association. D. l..
Crimmins, county president, presided
at the meeting.
Mr.. Kramer drew enthusiastic APP
plause when he declared, "Wall street
dominates our congress, what it says
goes" He belittled the reconstruc-
ton finance corporation undertaken
by the national government, deciar-
ing, mighty little Of the two billion
dollars appropriated viii ever trickle
through the big corporations to reach
the farmer. They might have at least
been sociable and divided up the two
billion so that the farmer would get
a share"
Hits Interference
Government interference with the
railroads is to blame for the plight
they are in," according to Judge Lau-
don who attacked the system Of hay-
ing many political boards control the
intricacies Of business. "Most of our
industries have been taken from the
hands of experts to be regulated by
politicians" he declared, How long
would your farm last with new boss
every two years 2"
Judge Laudon outlined the increase
in tax collections in recent years and
recent attempts to put business back
on prosperous basis. Industry
can't get back on its feet until the
farmers buying power is restored"
he declared. Labor and business are
organized, but just try to organize
the farmer" he added.
War, it was pointed out, yearly
costs the national government So OF
every 50 it collects in taxes, either
for payments on past battles or pre-
pairing for new. Mr.. Laudon declar-
ed, Governmental waste needs over
hauling"
Mr.. Goldberg was equally severe in
his criticism of government building
programs as means of erding the
depression. eve must get back to
the old order of things" he declared,
before we can get on the road back
to prosperity" He urged strict econ
omy in public office and set up pleas
for tax reduction as directly opposed
to a government construction project
undertaken to furnish employment.
Secretary Speaks
Mr.. Bergen explained chart show
ing the increases in tax expenditures
in recent years and outlined the work
his organization has accomplished in
collecting and presenting tax In
formation. He urged stringent tax
reductions through limiting of all
governmental budgets.
He recommended that all govern
mental functions that may be handled
by local boards be so handled, stating
that voters have less influence over
state and national officers than over
township and county officers.
Later he recommended county as
SCISSORS in place of assessors appoint
ed for individual townships, in the
hope of gaining fairer and more bal
anced assessments. Others at the
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