The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-11-03

spending power Of the legislature is properly exerted
to keep expenditures down.
every effort was made during the last session
Of the legislature to write this protection replace
ment) into the constitution" Nonsense! There was
much parrot-like mounting Of Replacement" just as
there is in this campaign. but workable replace
ment clause was seriously offered. An Offset clause
enabling the taxpayer deduct the amount of his
tax from his property tax, considered and
rejected. But an "ofset" for the individual is not
replacement for the whole body Of taxpayers.
Farmer, beware The time is coming when the
Minnesota farmer will pay from ITS to $3.50 tax on
his net income, based Wisconsin figures" Good
news! Speed the day! For under the Wisconsin law
married farmer with three dependent children would
have to have net income of from 1000 to $1,000
pay tax of $175. Wouldn't you cheerfully pay
such tax such income? The facts are that
Wisconsin farmers in good have paid less than
per cent Of the total income taxes of that state
And the oftrepeated statement that Wisconsin taxes
general property have to 800 per cent of what
they were when the income take adopted (1911)
has only the that in Minnesota the increase
to 400 per cent of the 1911 figures instead of 300
"Since Wisconsin adopted the state income tax,
the burden of taxation has forced business institutions
to close down entirely lay off large numbers of men
conne their expansion to plants outside the state"
Think of the thousands of men thrown out of work
when these plants closed up!
Now let's talk sense. Wisconsin adopted the in
tax in 1911. Since then has come the World
War; the postwar industrial expansion and COM
plete revolution in whole industrial life During
that time Wisconsin, because of its proximity to the
Great Lakes and to Chicago has added hundreds of
industries and thousands of industrial workers to her
population. The total income of her people in the
five years preceding 1880 increased 80 per cent while
Minnesotas shrunk seven-tenths of per cent The
net income of her corporations increased in the same
period Sc per cent and Miwaukees increase in the
value of manufactured products 26 per cent while
that of Minneapolis Al per cent. Wisconsins per
capita tax burden is lower than Minnesotas and her
total per capita burden to public debt is less than half
that carried by each Minnesota taxpayer.
eff Amendment No. 1 is adopted the legislature,
meeting in January will quickly pass an income tax
law which will require, etc. etc."
What man! Mr.. Vlars is telling YOU what a
legislature not yet elected is going to do the minute
it meets. He even knows what succeeding legislatures
are going to do. Listen!
"Every two years the legislature will meet and
decide to get more money out of you by raising the
rate or cutting down exemptions. Using Wiscon-
sins figures the probable annual tax on a grocery
store will be $15O50."
Using Wisconsin figures for the normal tax, with
out the 1882 emergency surtax) grocer married. with
no chidren) would pay $4,000 net income exactly
$780, 81 900 income $45 and on $4,000 income
$685. His net income would have to be close to $4,000
before his tax would be $3.50. Where is the grocer
with $4,000 net income today?
No, it would the the Twin CITY opponents
OF an income tax who financing the campaign
against it had better fire Mr.. Vars and hire some
one who knows little more about taxation-yes and
about plain arithmetic.