The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-04
FAIR TAX Unit
Will OPPOSE
N. c. SALES TAX
Formally Incorporated to-
Foster Fight for Repeal
of Measure
PUBLIC INTEREST
SEEN AS FACTOR
The Times-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

RALEIGH, Aug. 4.-Receiving
their charter yesterday afternoon
the North Carolina Fair Tax as
ISOLATION will set out Immediately
on a campaign to make the re-
Gently enacted sales tax so UNI
popular that special session of
the general assembly which first
enacted it will be called to repeal
it.
J. Paul Leonard, remembered
we'll as secretary of the old merch'
ants association, is executive di-
rector of the North Carolina Fair
Tax association and he. will do the
directing from Statesville. The
charter calls for the home office
in Greensboro, but Mr.. Leonard's
personal quarters will be in
Statesville. Representative D. f.
Turner of Iredell, retiring presi-
dent of the North Carolina Hard
ware association. is president Of
the association. The incorporates
are James H. Womble of Winston,
Salem. H. G. Strader of Reds
vile, and w. r. Spainhour of
Hickory.
The immediate purpose is the
abolition of the sales tax. The
newly chartered organization has
license to get into other business,
but its interest will be 'to educate,
advise, instruct. and inform the
citizenship of the state on mat
tiers of government, public policy,
and particularly taxation. To
engage in any and all lawful &C
Invites having for their purpose
1.-The repeal of the general sales
tax in North Carolina and the pre-.
vention of it's enactment at any
future date"
The Fair Tax association is adj.
Iyantaged now by the public's in
terest as a taxpayer. The general
sales tax has been made con-
Sumer's burden and the merch'
ants and their allies the purchas-
erS have at last common cause.
The time is not set for the special
session, but Mr.. Leonard thinks it
is not going to be such tremen-
dous job to repeal the act. In that
opinion he does not find a con
currence from his successor in the
merchants association, Willard |,
! Dowell. Mr.. Dowell almost beat
the tax by his own efforts, but he
never could think repeal would be
easy. big business won't let il
be repealed" he said.
But Mr.. Leonard thinks there
is more little than big bushes:
and the little ones will outvott
| the big ones. The moment the
great public feels the pinching OF
pennies it will become vocative
he believes. The campaign is de-
signed to raise a mighty petition
for repeating the act. And the
size of the memorial will determ'
inc very largely the speed of the
J call for the extraordinary session
Senator John w. Hinsdale OF
Wave, who introduced the luxury
| tax measure of 1881, does moi
agree that there will be any re
peal. He was not a general sales
taxer, but he thinks the average
imam will like the relief under the
present act so well that repeating
| it will be a futile enterprise.
Of course the repealers have
one great barrier to "ush away
There is the states credit in New
York. The certainty of balanc
cd budget has revolutionized tn
precarious trade relationship will
the bankers. Any proposal to re
peal would have to be met by
suggestion of the repealers The!
would be driven to find some o.
! the sources of revenue which will
replete the losses suffered by re
peal.