The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-24

come llJO Jlle MRS. MARTIN
higher braCk-
cts and the tax to $3.50, a boost OF
Sl60-yery nice for the Government
but bordering on the impossible for
the couple who have about all they
can do TO pay current expenses, in
Guiding insurance premiums and
war bonds, as it is.
Women Fight Tax
InotiCe that Mrs. Roosevelt is for
the joint tax return, but there are
not many women who can afford to
be so unconCerned with money as
this woman, whose income is de-
rived from so many sources. Fam
lilies Of wealth usually have a fine
disregard for money-it's quite nat
ural that they should. It's only
those who have experienced the
lack and the need of money who
really know the value of it.
OF course If one belongs to the
vanishing numbers who do not be-
lieve that a wife should work, then
the joint income tax is made to
order, since the working wife is
penaliZed. Being penalized, she. in
all PROBABILITY, is going to quit her
job.
Judge Dorothy Kenyon, who pre-
sented a report for the American
Assn of University Women at the
Washington hearings of the House
Ways and Means Committee.
opposes the bill. She is interesting
organizations to form a citizens
committee opposing the bill
The government has one hand
out Coaxing and the other one
drawn back in fist to sock wo-
men," Judge Kenyon said. 1t is
urging married women more and
more TO go into industry. Then.
If they go in and earn that sepa-
rate income, they must couple 1t
with their husbands and jump up
the family bracket out Of proper
ton. 1t doesn't make sense"
Judge Kenyon feels that in Eng
land similar law is making the
recruitment Of badly needed addi-
tional labor from the ranks Of mar
ried women matter Of the greatest
difficulty, and points out that the
fact that such a bill has been re-
jected in Australia is evidence
against it. She further says that
the bill is throwback into Black
stone days, when a marriage made
two people one and that one the
husband" a "Hitlerian concept"
but it is an entering wedge to fur
Their discrimination against Wo-
men.
Added Burden
True or false, the fact remains
that II is an added burden on
couples who are already doing their
share in bearing the tax burden.
Many of them believe, like most
right thinking persons, that some
way should be devised to distribute
the burden, instead Of concentrat-
ing on those already taxed. It seems
fairly obvious that tax deductions
from the source is the fair way TO
set about getting the necessary
amount needed by the Government
to defray the expenses of war.
The league of Women'S Voters
mas already NOlCtu lJo OppOSlJlOn.
The league issued a statement
recommending that the bill should
not be weighed as a consideration
of womenS rights, but Judge Ken
yon. herself a member, feels that
the issue is fundamentally one Of
women's rights. Whatever it is or
against what it is directed, it i'm
poses additional hardship in a
group that is working to maintain
the American way of life by being
self supporting and industrious,
while treated to the spectacle Of the
cunning and cupidity of those who
are either living at the expense Of
the government or who are un-
touchables who conniye to escape
any sort of taxation.