Evening star., 1932-03-31

the Youngstown Vindicator is convinced
tnat IL Is the common people who will
suffer most if Congress prolongs the
depression and the Baltimore Sun
! contends that at a time when taxes
are absolutely imperative the House
StrucK down the SALES tax with no idea
OF what 1t would offer in substitution.
ana no sure purpose to offer an ade-
quate substitute" The Ann Arbor
pally News points out that the sales
TAX would have spread the levies over
Wloe area of merchandising. and the
Spread would have been extremely thin
In any one spot The Providence
journal voices the belief that "as Mr.
Hcover points out. the American people
are as courageous and as wise as the
eI%Ie OF ether countries. who. for the
SAKE OF pre- -erving their national credit
nave submitted to far more burdensonne
TAX n-rease5 than have been proposed
1or US to bear"
Ihe New York Sun records that thu
sales tax was a broad tax touchin0 :
great number of persons lightly" The
1oahoSe Times oeplores the fact that
business mas been kept in a state of un-
o oIa. .annVy ana suspense, to the conse-
Quent poStponement of a return n
normalcy." The Lynchburg News warn.
OF nation which must borrow and
sdGs: 'Lst it be kept up long enough
and II viii not have to be yerv long
ana the crash of 1929 will appear a
oleScing in comparison" The wall
otr2et Journal states that what the
insurgents have accomplished is the
postponement of business recovery "
ne O3hkosh Northwestern sees "chaos." &"
pfought about when the Democratic
SedersAip lost its grio."
Just as well, perhaps" thinks
t1 tne Lincoln State Journal. that the
Dill was finally put out of its misery
for in the effort to put it across il was
horribly mangled, item after item was
eliminated or changed and article after
art!c!e was exempted" The Charlotte
observer advises that "tha common
pe~p.e who have been rescued from the
penalties OF the sales tax have more
votes than the class of people who will
De called upon to bear the larger pat
Gt the tax burden" The DAYTON Daily
News argues that IF the politicians
would lower the income tex exemptions
SO as to increase dra~t Cally the inc,n1a
levy on the moderately prosperous. those
or incomes down to, Sav. $4,000 a wear
The needed revenue could be had. and
by fairer method than the sales tax"
Viewing the matter from another an
gle. the Portland Oregon Journal makes
the suggestion: Just as Surtaxes on
great incomes were the proper taxes for
the emergency created by the war, thew
are proper tax on the emergency Gre
ated by the depression and the unbal-
anced Federal budget And it is even
more important that the salas tax, re-
sorted to only on Injuries during the
war emergency should not be resorted
to when there are miilio7S in the coun-
try already having difficult enough
getting the necessities of life" The
South Bend Tribune says, The Crn-
gres1men who pussyfooted by not voting
either for or against the sales tax do
not deserve consideration as a group. II
they all went into the sales tax camp.
a majority still would not be recorded
for imposition of 225 per cent tax on
lifes necessities to sustain a grossly in
1ated Federal structure"
Advocates of the remedy of Govern
ment economy are the Kansas City
Times the Rutland Herald. the New
Orleans Item and the Topeka Daily
Capital