Milford chronicle., 1943-03-05

vide this With your War Bond pur-
chases. If you have not done so,
join the Payroll Savings Plan and
put ten percent of your income into
War Bonds. IS. Treasury Department
Courtesy Industrial News Review
For many years. soak the rich
was the slogan for raising tax
money. 1t was very misleading
but vOte-getter. Taxes were
something for the guy who had
three shirts. instead of one or two
to worry about.
So the three-shirt man was fin
ally squeezed dry. Then the two
shirt man was put through the
wTinger.
Last year, the tax collector. for
the first time. was forced to turn
to the one-shirt man. Tax waste
of peace time had come home to
roOst in war time.
Senator Bennett Champ Clark of
Missouri. says that we face "cri-
sis in Federal taxation" and advo-
Gates prompt passage of a pay-as-
you-go tax law. Millions of first
time" taxpayers find themselves
faced with paying taxes on 1912 in
come, without cash saved for that
purpose. On top Of that, taxes on
1943 income are already accumu-
lating.
So far, the only definite solution
that has been proposed is the So
called Ruml plan. Briefly stated, it
would provide that taxes on 1912
personal incomes be disregarded
and that the payments which we
will all have to make ut the new
and higher rates during 1943 be
considered as taxes on 1913 income
rather than 1912 income.
NO one would escape the pay
ment of taxes" says Senator Clark.
THE only difference would he that
we would each be paying in 1943 on
194S income, instead of paying in
1943 on 1912 income and waiting
for 1914 TO pay for the old dead
horse of 1943.
Theoretically. the government
would lose a years taxes scattered
over a period of 10 or ~ years as
the present generation of taXpay-
ers cease to be taxpayers. This
would. in the opinion of the most
responsible authorities on ac-
countancy be far more than offset
by the greater promptness and
certainty of collection.
Il urge every man and woman
who is interested in this vital prob
lem to write his Congressman and
Senators expressing his view
whatever it may be"
By "A Ruml plan the nation may .
save its remaining shirt and pre-
vent chaos in government financial /
affairs which would result from in
ability of millions of citizens to
pay income taxes on income long
since spent.
/s/S/ !
A basic principle of democracy is
free choice. Significantly, eXtrem-
lists who urge adoption of broad
health programs give
scant attention to that basic prin-
ciple.
FREE CuOlCG SuIQGS every dCl iii
our daily lives. We can 90 to the
church we choose, We can buy
from whom we please.
we can choose the car in which we
ride, we can say what we choose. .
we can choose the schools we wish
to attend.
Whenever we abandon the prin- :
ciple of free choice. we hurt no one !
but ourselves. And that goes for !
service. Free choice of ,
doctor automatically encourages +
competence The most |
qualified are the most patronized r
As a result, every doctor is spur -
red on to achieve the reputation =
Of being a good doctor. This in 8
centive. or whatever you wish to
;all it, is the background of every
loctor's training. 1t embodies more j.
han mere financial success. Pride l
If accomplishment. the heart {
warming feeling that people come /
o him because they believe in him. 7
hese are part of the incentive in
ipired by free choice which gov
rms the career of the average doc =
or. The same inspiration has been !.
for the miraculous II
cientific discoveries that have Il
ome from research laboratories of =,
medicine. I =
If we abandon the principle of =,
rec choice in the field of medicine, u
MEDICAL service will decline. " "
/S/s/ !, il
When three fires in places of is
ublic assembly within a few ts
lonths result in death to nearly a tC
housand persons, something is CT
acking in local fire prevention T
leasures.
The National Board of Fire I'm W
in a bulletin to fire hi
apartment officials, emphasizes di
lat the first step toward control HI
ng fire in places of public as h;
smbly must be the granting of vt
Ill authority to someone TO in tn
,ect such places. The next step Al
to see that unsatisfactory con- NJ
tions are corrected. The latter