Nogales international., 1938-07-09
Tax Free Homes

MANY centuries ago the Crown and the Overlords,
AVA secure in their lordly castles exacted tribute
from the vassals for the privilege of living in their
lowy hovels This tribute was called taxation and
the home tax we have today is direct descendant
from the old feudal system. '~~
The taxation of the Home is unfair unjust and III
human according to the fundamental principles OF
humanity, and major destructive force Of the car
dinal principles of the nation which gave man the
right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
The proposed exemption Of homes, furniture and
land up to the market value of S5O0O is an equality
to ALL giving the first $4,000, exemption to
every homeowner irrespective if he be city dweller
or farm owner, and is measure which is just and
equitable because it is equal to all.
The foundation of civilization is the home and the
bulkwark of all decent society, and mothers cannot
look after the future of the human unless they
have home free of the shackes of taxation because
the preservation Of the home is fundamental neces
sity if to remain truly democratic country.
Any civilization that forces people to lose their
homes through taxation and causes them to rear
their children in huts, novels, shacks, and traitor
houses is a civilization which needs corrective in
fluences because free government cannot exist with
out the welfare and liberty of it's people foremost
in mind and the welfare of the future of mankind can
only be nodded in the home and on this anvil alone
is wrought the future intellectual instrument of hui
man betternent
The taxation of the home is unfair to human rights
we'll property rights and such taxation is slow
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by the ever-increasing crime problem the r-grow
ing slum areas, and finally by our everdecreasing
birth rate which can deny. We have wisely eX
empted our schools and churches from taxation yet
the source of supply for schools and churches is
the home and continued taxation OF the home will
destroy the home that the supply for the churches and
schools will be depleted and in evidence of such
statement the birth rate of the United States in 1915
was 70 new babies per thousand population in con-
trast to 10 new babies per thousand population in
1885, twenty years later, and the only definition for
this alarming condition is Race Suicide
The taxation Of the home is the destructive force
which threatens the American home and the demo-
cratic form of government because liberty may make
mistakes but tax tyranny is the death of any com
munity. Home ownership reflects good citizenship,
good citizenship demands clean and economic gov
ernment, clean and economic government spells
prosperity and prosperity denotes happiness, peace
and security.
The present tax structure is adequate to Tax Free
Homes furnishings and land up to $5O00 by practice
OF efficiency and economy in government together
with simple method of return of just portion of
the everincreasing called excise taxes to the Cities
and Counties to whom they rightfully belong why
tolerate this unfair, unjust and inhuman policy of
economic slavery.
Tax Free Homes is possible practical and feasible.
1t will work because it is working in approximately
onerd of all the states in the United States today
Abolish the taxes on the home and you help abolish
economic slavery and Arizona will then experience
progress of gratifying permanence, whereby new
wealth will be added, new jobs created industry
encouraged and new populous growth which will
the flow of money to the State for invest
ment purposes because the home and land is the basis
of all wealth and the best investment possible today
is that investment in Tax Free Home and land
The emancipation of the home from the bonds of
tax slavery will endow Arizona with permanent per-
petual era of growth and prosperity
NJ c. REESE
Everything we have is taxed-even our credulity