The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-28

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in on merchandise that we wish TO
conserve, thus creating scarcities
in the wrong classihcations.
theoretically we can ration
them. but, if we've got the dough,
it is a cinch that We always would
be able to find bootleggers TO keep
them supplied, at fancy figures.
A few would be caught at it, but
only a small proportion Bootleg
gers high prices would result IN
imitation, concerning which we
have heard so much. Soon after
the war there would be a crash
and then an awful depression.
The only way to forestall this
sequence is by busting the public
so financially fat that it MUST,
economize.
That's to be accomplished Of II
CAN be accomplished) by taxa
ton. Largely it will be income
taxation. There is no use in try
ing to quote statistics, for hey are
already being "rassled" over by
congressional ON m tie s, the
treasury department and all sorts
of economists, and nobody knows
yet Just what the conclusionll be.
However, the indications are that
blamed few folk will be left, after
footing the revenue collectors bill,
to waste any simoleons.
That SIS Limit
One suggestion, though, is in
teresting.
Many workers pay is so small
that, though skimpily sufficient to
taxation. the impost is only a
nickel or two, maybe. Well, say
that one Of these guys makes a
return. His return involves cler-
ical expense Of about 81 to handle.
Collection from HIM is at a gov
ernmental loss, consequently.
Okay. In that event he is 10
pay IS. to have his return eX-
amined.
In other words. If the chaps
income is too small to be proftably
taxable. he is to be fined IS because
1t isn't.
Hitherto the system has been to
have a hireling save up his pay,
week by week or month by month,
and then pay his tax in a single
chunk or quarterly. Now the no.
ton is to have his boss hold out
the proper weekly or monthly pro-
portion, hand 1t over to Uncle Sam
and leave the worker with a clean
slate at the years end.
This strikes me as a rather
merciful arrangement. The toiler
will be able to break the news to
his missus more moderately than
otherwise. However, the bosses
may be fretted by the extra book
keeping. But who cares for the
bossesi
Automotive Scarcity
Automobiles? They're scarce,
due to tire and gasoline shortages.
That's a real scarcity, according
to Glenn L. Martin, as spokesman
for his aircraft company, Gosh,
yes! That concerns got to have
raw material to produce planes.
It calls for buzz wagons, though,
to deliver the stuff at its factory
doors. ad lib. Automotive restric-
tons? Murder The undesirable
ity Of that shortage speaks for
itself
There's scrap between gasoline
and rubber.
Tires need TO be economical
more than gas does, Charles l.
bearing Of the Brookings Institu-
tons management, testifes He
wants autos restricted, but not SC
much because Of fuel as because
of dwindling gum supplies. I've
already had occasion to quote
Elliot L. Simpson, a big Yankee
rubberite, to the effect that the
rubber campaigns origin is with
half a dozen big corporations,
seeking to squeeze all peewees out
Of business.
No Whisky Shortage
Whisky has taken pretty good
care Of itself.
II is not that there Is much Of a
campaign for prohibition, but the
War Production Board is requisi-
tioning all the distillers product
for industrial alcohol-undrink-
able stuff for wartimes belligerent
nurposes. as distinguished from