Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-04-02
when the rich people draw the profit
out of IS per cent of everything.


out of 95 per cent of everything.
Let it go few more years with
the same kind of reform legislation,
then still smaller per cent of the
people will become the owners of all
the 100 per cent of the wealth. That
is unavoidable if it shall keep on
going in the same direction. Some
people think that they are well off
when they are having home of some
kind without a mortgage on it, and
say, I'VE would be all right if it was
not for the high taxes and high cost
of living"
There it is. The expenses of the
federal government is mostly paid
from a tax on living expenses, so
that it is bound to make a high cost
of living. The federal debt is about
$3.50 per person children included.)
The debt of the several states, cOun-
ties. cities, towns and schools are in
most cases about as much as they
can be trusted for, so that is bound
to make the taxes high. We can add
all the public debts together, and
read about it, that it shall have
been estimated, that it amounts to
about $500 per person. You home
owner-when you get your share of
that paid, the home is yours, if not,
new encumbrance is put on it dur
ing the time you pay the old debt.
AS long as the public debt is on it,,
1t is for you as a mortgage.
Now the farmers shall have real
pork barrel to take from; $40, and in
some cases more per acre, for land
that they agree not to spoil. Even
the pauper with the tax on his liv-
ing, will by that be forced to help
to fill the pork barrel for them when
it shall be filled from tax on living
expenses. This is straight out taken
from one and given to another, the
plainest robbing poor people and
give to some better off people. The
rich farmers in the swivel chair will
get the most, of course. The one hav-
ing thousands of acres that he can
let lay idle is bound to get more
than the poor farmer with only few
acres idle, but the poor farmer will
have to pay his share, as we'll as the
poor idle worker living on poor help.
1t must be understood that the poor
help is reduced by the tax there is
on the goods they buy with it.
Some farmers will draw many thou
sands of dollars out of this, regard
less of whether they need it or not,
and to no benefit to the public, and
many poor people will suffer hard by
paying it. an.
What do you poor labor men think
of Farmer-Labor party being in
favor of such a law? According to
that the name for it should be farmer
party, but let us stick to it and do
our best to get some reform prin-
ciples into it, so nobody shall be in
need on account of that there is too
much of that there is needed To
raise the prices and not provide for
buying power is foolish. If there had
been buying power, there would not
have been any overproduction, but
the rich people had taken the money
in form of profit-by letting the ma
chimes do the work instead of men
and on account of that there can
never be work for everybody, but
there can be good living for all, but
that must be under a new order of
society, where one can not take profit
out of the others work to such a
degree as is done now. The remedy
nearest at hand for that, is an in
come tax to take the place of the
tax on goods we use, and high enough
so to keep all the money in circula-
tion.
ANDREW RASMUSSEN.
5000 West River Blvd, Minneapolis.