The people's voice., 1941-05-07
The New Taxes

significant the daily press gives space nfor
NATIVE publicity concerning the taxes being considered in
the United States Congress at the time is not
prsng in of the followed in the considerations
and the conditions existing in country.
The of the Treasury department running
true to FORM carried definite threat to wealth They
that the bulk the be loaded the
ready shoulders Of the low people the
country the of sales and
the classes Even those people in the middle income
brackets escape apprecabe increases their
1t is the poor who will pay and And their
apahetc patient acceptance of the verdict is characteristic
It is commonly accepted fact, which it is not that
come taxes collected from wealthy individuals
poraons provide of the this country On the
contrary provide at the 27
of the tax with the consumers paving in hidden taxes
Matches electricity and other goods and
ices, 73 percent of all tax revenue
Every time your wife spends dollar food and other
of fe % of the dollar for
when speak of taxpayers we speak OF every human being
in this country who buys anything Railroads. power
panies and all other enterprises only tax collectors You
and as consumers OF the goods and services distributed by
them pay the taxes.
Now treasury proposes and congress
protect you and but the great corporate interests
doubedy follow the recommendations and and will be
scratching and scraping to pay the bill
quite insignificant profits taxes
corporations comparatively negligible
high will probably be included gesture of sad
JIno +be burden aouaIv on all However even studv of
the which it proposed to levy incomes OF the
called middle shows clearly enough that equality in
the burden not sought For instance married
pie children making $4,000 year would have $24
left after paying the federal income tax married couple
without children making $4,000 would still have $4494
plan.
Concedng that there valid argument against the
levied against the couple whose income $2500
why is considered to leave the $4,000
year couple $4,000 than the $4,000 couple clear
after their paid That doesn't spell equality
the several hundreds of thousands left in the
pockets of the high income after they have paid their
income
However, the proposals to increased tax from
the great of people this country most of them with in
admittedly far below decent subsistence level in the
additional commodities and mex
cusable long billions of profits and incomes
running hundreds of thousands left practically
untouched
We charge that of that kind under consideration
apparently wealth subservient is UNAMERI
CAN the basis of the precepts of democracy We cha
lenge its justification grounds of equity justice
mon humanity
However, protest is raised by the daily press. Its
ers sooges industry and capital nothing for the in
eres public. They mouth fulsomey about sacrifice
deense sacrifice by everyone except those whose profits
swell the defense We hear nsistence that
General Steel Castings Corporation which
profits nineteen thousand four hundred ortyone
percent 1910 should make proportionate sacrifices.
speak representatives in Congress- Let
demand they represent OUR interests LET THE VOICE
OF THE PEOPLE BE HEARD.