The Lexington advertiser., 1933-06-22
NEWS-VIEWS
BY RAIFORD KILLEBREW

Dr.. Rice. Of Natchez, is again worry
: ing about prospective raise in the sales
Itzx. Governor Conner is advocating 3
raise il the tax in order that the taxes
ion property may be reduced. Dr.. Rice
will have rather hard time in eonvinc-
ling the property owners that the sales
lE2x is not the fairest tax ever imposed
upon tax pairing people.
The sales tax is fair. We advocate s
Just distribution Of taxes in proportion
"a the ability 70 pay. Every means pcs
sible has seen enacted into existence for
leolIsccizs taxes. and the total amount
Eot money collected has not been ample
10 pap earrs1t expenses. Nest ot Us
5=tess taxes II any nature whatever.
We ike 70 dip cz- fingers into the pub
lie funds ard Ee. what we ear; ws feel
.1a. werx done fer ths county OF state Is
f~cr-1 more than the same kind OF work
taze for p-tvzte individuals. but We seek
vari9z< schemes ot Grading taxes
/ IN me recs.5 SENATORIAL investigation
bat !. P Morgan j. was developed ths-
Members u tbs company had escaped
the Izeams tax This condition has pre-
rallied II sevsrzi Instances These in
5.v5d-4is have aot violated any law il
te<capizs The income s4x. but they have
merely followed she tendency 70 es-
cape VIXEN possible. This is common II
I The property Tax We want the TAX as
NUN price. and we fail 20 include some
things thar are taxable Ever though
~s take an cath Eha- We have given our
property in a. its full rzl1e we fail 10
do it.
Tie property t4x allows an opportunity
for fsvoritsm. This Is especially true
vixen the assessor IS Unscrupuleus. o.
when he does not have the ability 70
pEs { fair value OF property. It fre-
quea-ly happens that an individual ~ho
o~az a mansion will not pay taxes IL
proportion ID .he taxes paid by someone
owning Z ho1se q less value.
There i class o. people that mas CON
s-i6uted very l.tle toward maintaining
the government. This Is the salariei
class, many q whom DO not OWE properly
on which taxes can ae levied. It often
happens that { sa!zrjed man makes more
money than man who is operating
oGsi1ess Their taxes ara not IN pro
sl4LE-J.- - -E-G-+ ----EL4-E- Gl-E4AEG EE-E
1as received the same benefits from the
var5o-s r1al:e enterprises that are aain-
.4i1ed - taxation.
TIE school ai2sr.ct tax Is an example
oc tae uafairnezs q the property tax.
II =1ese cases L often happens that
man with several children attending
school pays 10 taxes, while nan with
10 children II school Is forced 10 pay.
Some claim ia. the property owner Is
benefited D tae Enhanced value Of MS
property Is : result % the school This
might De true i ne wished to sell MS
property. but il Is not true if he does
ROT wish 70 sell.
The sales tax will eliminate this uE-
fairness 20 great extent Most OF US
buy in proportion to our ability to pay.
1t distributes our taxes throughout the
year, and ~e pay n small amounts. The
s&les -eZ : mere to stay.
Although the sale Of beer mas no, been
iegalized in Mississippi, II is being sold
and the dispensers are getting away
@ith il. Two cases we're tried last week
and IN each case jury rendered YER
dict Of not guilty. In one Of these
cases Z man was being tried in Madison
county for selling 2700 bottles. One
witness for the defense testified that
ne drank 45 bottles in one day, went
home and carried his wife to picture
show that night. Perhaps this individ-
ual knew that a few kicks would be ap-
piled to his atanomy if he showed symp-
oS -frL- taa
After twelve years OF miserable fail
ure, graft, corruption in government.
scandal. and depravity, the word repub-
iican is seldom heard. a few Of the has
beens continued in Washington trying
TO throw cogs in President Roogevelt'3
machinery Of recovery legislation until
Pat Harrison denounced them in no un-
certain terms in the senate. This buch
scampered TO cover and did not muster
courage to come out again.
/. is estimated that one and half
million jobIess men have been employed
during the last two months, and that
four million will be employed by the
first Of October. The Democratic party
gets in power just often enough 20 MAKE
Us appreciate It's existence.
1t has always been something mystic
rious about the way in which some Grim
inals receive pardons. 1t oftens hap
pens that man commits a hideous
crime and after going through several
courts, he finally gets a sentence in pri-
son. Just why should a governor come
to his rescue, forgive him of his sins,
and turn him loose to continue his de-
baucheIy upon innocent citizens? Per-
haps there are times when convict
should be pardoned, but these pardons
should be issued with care and only
when it is necessary.
Under our present system of preten-
tious administering of justice, the ac-
cused is given every advantage in the
courts. Only one out of every six muir
derers is convicted, and this conviction
usually results after long drawn out
contest with great cost. Just why
should the governor become the bene-
/ factor OF the criminal after he is con-