The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-11-08

mares In which the once ambitious
bones of sales tax Legislators are
bleaching now On New jerseys Pc
lJtical desert.
WOULD FACE
CERTAIN VETO
And anyway, even if they should
push through another measure levy
ing sales tax on necessities, Gov
ernor Olson fatty announced this
week that he will veto it just as he
did their sales taX-omnibus bill last
winter.
! So Minnesota has sales tax in
surance that at least cannot run
out before the regular session of
1887. Then the question of whe-
Their the policy is renewable OF not
will depend on who has been elect
ed governor, and who makes up the
House of Representatives.
PROTESTS
, POUR IN
, Protests against enactment of a
> sales tax have poured in from all
, sections of the state and all walks
. Of life. The Ramsey county Farm
" er-Labor central committee this
. week adopted a resolution calling
" on the governor and all progressive
= members of the Legislature, to
= block any general sales tax bill,
a" such as is being proposed "by self
A." ish and reactionary interests" to
. meet the revenue requirements of
= the old age pension plan.
I" Independent merchants through
= out the state have voiced organic
= ed condemnation of the move.
= And even the sales tax propo-
. nents of the last session, many of
y them, have been frank to admit
y they do not want to even bring up
. the issue at the special session.
= FEAR
4" VOTERS IRE
Their most frequent reason is
that, forced to sit without compen-
sation, they do not want to prolong
& the session for the many weeks
that tax revision program would
require.
But behind it all is the fact, pro-
n claimed even in the reactionary st.
y Paul Pioneer Press last Sunday,
y that next year they must run for
reelection, and they want no re-
corded vote for sales tax to hang
: from about their necks.
New jerseys sales tax ghost
keeps shrieking in their ears. That
state enacted a sales tax last year.
1t became effective last July. New
M Jersey, like North Dakota, Arkan-
20 sas and many other states, suffer
d ed from anti-sales-tax revolts and
Is bitter public animositv
This year New Jersey elected &
a. new legislature. Governor Hoff,
1t man, not running for reelection
:e until next year, took the field as g
lie sales tax defender. Nearly every
NJ sales taxer was defeated for re
w election.
re Last week the new Legislator,
IL met. It's first major act was to re
peal the sales tax law, with u
in emergency clause making the re
to peal effective Immediately upo
Wy signature by the governor.
lie New Jersey had sales tax e1
dcIly III DAYS.
90 The New Jersey Senate voted
lis to 0 for repeal, with five member
IN not voting.
The House voted so to-3 for n
ne peal. Only three sales tax advC
nd Gates left in the entire legislator
rk after 1T days trial.
And Governor Hoffman, sales ia
= advocate, waited at his desk
sign the repeater.
DUNN ADMITS
GOODNESS
Minnesota Conservative Senate
- who need not run until 1888 pls
to try to put through a sales ts
bill, even in the face of certa
~ veto. But the House leaders a
= coyly cool toward the proposal.
~ None other than Roy E. Dun
Conservative majority leader
the House, In an interview wi
Joseph Ball, Pioneer Press polit
ITS, cal writer, discouraged any a
It's, tempt to enact a sales tax no
md The Pioneer Press pointed out tn
next year is election pear-for Il
House members-and should
sales tax be enacted, and becon
Ors effective on the customary July
ed public resentment would just abo
t. reach its peak during the fat
y days Immediately preceding Il
rs November balloting.
ly And it is during those days tn
s. the wishes of constituents cou
ur for much more than the desires
We lobbyists.
n NORTH DAKOTA SUPPORTER
al GET SALES TAX JITTERS
ro Over in North Dakota, the Sal
n Tax supporters, including Gov. w
ford, ex-Gov. LANCER, the No
ed Partisan League Legislature, t
nm LANCER and the Olson faction, t
',y Independent Voters Associate
a. the Democratic Legislators, all {
re laborated under the leadership
to the big business lobby, and in Ma
oh 1885, under the excuse of nect
inc sity and emergency, put the sal
oai tax over. The same Wall Sire
ma. agent back of the Minnesota sal
tax, were behird the North Dakc
sales tax. They passed the
thru the Minnesota LegislatJ
using the same emergency and I
essity argument, but Gov. OILS
said there was no emergency a
acts vetoed the bill. The state surv
ed. The sales tax was referred
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