The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-24
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and designed to secure uniformity and
improvement in motor vehicle laws and
the administration of motor vehicle
departments.
While movements of this kind work
slowly and much more inconspicuously
than the ballyhoo of politicians, they
also work more surely and more eff
fectively.
1t is quite possible than Mike Holm
gave more than he received at these
meetings. Not only does his admins
tration of the Minnesota motor vehicle
department hold the blue ribbon for
economy in the United States, but it
leads all in service and efficiency. The
Minnesota department is the only one
in the country that affords motor car
owners day and night information
service; the only one that pushes de-
linquent tax collections and has COM
plete transfer, dealer and nonresident
permit records. While rendering these
and other noteworthy services the Min
neSota department nevertheless issues
license plates more economically than
does any other state.
The Minnesota Institute of Govern
mental Research has made a search
for sources of tax revenue which might
be used instead of the sales tax The
Institutes report indicates what will
happen if the attempt is made to up
income tax rates to a point never be-
lytoOV in f1syy f1tdx
made by the Institute estimates a tax
yield of $13,900,O00 or somewhat less
than the amount expected to be Sc
cured from the sales tax proposed in
omnibus tax bill last winter. The esti-
mate would hit the man of small and
moderate income as follows:
Tax on $1,000 net income, state $50,
federal $40-total $40.
Tax on $4,000 net income, state 500,
federal $80-total $180.
Tax on $4,000 net income, state $3.50
federal $160-total $780,
Tax on $4,000 net income, state $3.50,
federal s320-total $1,1O0.
Tax on $1,000 net income, state
81 800, federal $5OO-total $1,860.
Tax on $4,000 net income, state
81, 100, federal $7O0-total $4,000.
1t is evident that the man of small
income would pay heavily, and pecu-
liarly, he would pay the state far more
than he now pays the federal govern
ment on an income tax only slightly
less than the World War taxes.
The estimate of yield is on the basis
of the present state yield, but it is
the experience of history that the law
of increasing rates and diminishing
returns would largely reduce the actual
yield.
Another study made by the Institute
just about as nauseous to take, is a
filing fee tax, a soothing term for a
head tax which, if applied to every
state resident of legal age, is estimated
to raise not more than $3y075,000
The Minnesota state highway de-
partment, suffering from many and
grievous knocks and blows, has one
Staunch friend. Its the maker of
signs. Signs multiply on the state
highways in geometrical ratio. A cur
iouS motorist counted; found 40 signs
within one mile, and found 100 within
five miles.
They still have blood in their eyes
at Virginia On the streets of that fair
city, known far and wide as the Queen
City of the Iron Range" it is gospel
that City Attorney Luke F. Burns, mil
liant Farmer-Laborite and super-mil-
liant booster of his home town as the
one and only proper site for Minneso-
ta's proposed new hospital for the in
sane, has struck a hard and fast bar