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whatever is called for, it would be
paid out of the current years in
come as an assessment on the same
years income. We would not be
paying for dead horses while we are
fighting a war.
Will Prevent Postwar Spree.
3. The paV-aS-yOu-go income tax
plan is the best kind of financial
planning for the postwar period.
Our policies can then be forward
looking, not backward looking. We
Will not be trying to collect income
taxes from people who are mem-
ployed, we will not be debating
whether we should collect taxes on
l94l or 1912 income from men de-
modified from the armed forces. We
will not have spending spree in
the first little bOOmlet. financed on
unpaid taxes. and then tax-debt
headache if income should drop off
for year or so.
There are two ways to get per-
SOnal income taxpayers on a cur
rent basis. First. Congress can base
this years tax on this years III
come, in other words move the tax
clock ahead, or secondly. Congress
can try to collect two years taxes
in one year / do not think it would
be practical or expedient to try and
collect two years taxes in one wear"
Meanwhile, House Republicans.
charging that desperate attempts
are being made to smear" Ruml
plan supporters. prepared to de-
mand proof of Mr.. DingWells ac-
CuSation
Representative Knutson, Repub-
lican, of Minnesota. leading the Re-
publican battle for the RUlml plan,
said, well certainly call on him to
produce his evidence" and Minority
Leader Martin told newspa permen:
It's Just desperate smear cam
palgn Waged by those who realize
they're fighting a losing battle. It's
absolutely ridiculous and shows how
w. fNI ave ctIC GilOSt WHO Glp ll8nL-
ing the Carlson bill"
Will Meet Today.
The sharp Republican response
came as the House held its first
Saturday session of the year to
continue the debate. Yesterday it
heard Mr. Dingell say:
L am convinced that the minor
lty, sitting on the Republican side of
the aisle, has promise of abundant
campaign funds should the remis-
sion bring about the skipping of one
years taxation, and l don't know
but what the generous Republicans
would not remember the assistance
given them by a few Democrats on
our side.
You may have substantial
campaign fund to enhance YOUR re-
election but your opponent. if he
has a lick of sense. will beat YOU to
a frazzled edge and will take vour
seat IN this House because you can
not defend giving away $4,000 .O0O.-
600 needed for war purposes at this
critical time
representative Lynch. Democrat.
OF New York, charged the Repub-
lcans sought to wreck the admin
lstratlon's war economy "and
through that wreckage climb back
to political power"
The debate reached a climax at
the days end when Representative
Otter. Republican. of PENNSYLVANIA
declared that the Ways and Means
Committee seemed to believe it was
a bit OF effrontery on the part of
the American people to assert them
selves and back the Ruml plan.
He shook his finger at Mr.. Dough-
ton and cried out that the intelli-
gence of the American people
usually can be depended upon
they know what the loan sharks
have done to them" Mr.. Dough-
ton stormed to his feet. shouting:
There's not a line in the Com
mittee) bill about loan sharks. Show
us where there is such a line. I
challenge him to do it. I dare him
to do it
FalsificatiOn Charged.
1T starts at the first word of the
BILL retorted Mi Otter TT gaes
down to the last period In it is
the story of the public orgy, the ex-
traVagance. the waste, of the raids
on the public Treasury. Spread out
through all of it is the story of the
happy hunting grounds of the Harry
Hopkinses."
Mr. Doughton shouted that Mr.
Otter had either not read the COM
mittee's bill or had falsifed the
situation"
Representative Reed, Republican
Of New York. declared the present
tax system is driving millions of
persons into the clutches of loan
sharks" and pleaded for enactment
Of the Ruml plan as the only fair
and practical means of attaining
pay-aS-you-go.
He said 100000, 900 has been bor-
roWed at interest rates ranging up
to 240 per cent, to pay taxes.
Martin Sees Ruml Victory.
There were new additions to the
inactive already sprinkling the rec
ords Of debate. Mr.. Reed described
the committees bill as "a slimy
thing and Mr.. Dingell shouted that
the RUM plan would constitute "a
legalized rape of the treasury"
Mr.. Martin forecast victory for
the Ruml plan, with II votes to
spare, while Mr. Doughton said,
The Ruml plan is beaten"
Despite the laundering oratory
attendance on the House floor dwin-
died. Only so of the 435 members