The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-06
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hdlyidual Taxpayer
ce1s Hit Again
NRUL MALLoN

hdividual Taxpayer i
Co.'S Hit Again ...- ..a-..
Congressional lawmakers entered
"a apparent gentleman's agree
ment earlier in the year that they
would soak the individual income
uxpayer no more until he had a
chance to straighten himself out on
the so-called "pay-as-you-go"-the
!. eyice by which they half-covertly
HAked his war taxes at least Is
percent, under the benevolent
uise of letting him pay currently
liter 1945. III z
Members of the house commit
Tee, and also senate finance, agreed
the individual just could not stand
more during this transition period
Of double taxation. Nothing was
written down, but public state
ments were issued by many men,
bers to this effect. 49, .
Now, after nine months of
earching for new methods of
hxation-and failing to consider
eriously single new method, not
wen voting on a sales tax or a
pending tax, or trying to reach
tie special restricted class of in
lated war incomes-senate finance
has submitted bill:
TO hif the same old individual
heome taxpayer and no one else.
ssain by the stealthY method Of
allowing rates to remain the same
While removing two, important ex-
smptions.
Elimination of the 10 percent
earned income credit will hike the
individuals tax costs about $40
million dollars next year; disallow-
mce Of deductions for excise taxes
will cost $50 million dollars more.
In all, this bill raises income taxes
again by about 100 million dollars.
How did they dare do it? Chiefly
yyAuse a thoughtlessly false, if
~ Intentionally deceptive, propa-
ganda has been built up before
he public.- Taxrhakers in Meir
iddiness or frustrationih have come
TO believe their own words 1.-THE
country can stand more taxes"
People have money to burn"
Danger of initiation"
The truth is, certain war work.
ing people have greatly increased
Incomes, but most people have
much less after taxes and high
prices.
No one advertises the truth that
this government increased its toll
pa the income taxpayer 152 per-
tent the first five months of this
fiscal government year July to
December) over last year. Little
10 you hear of taxation rising 700
percent in three major bills since
earl Harbor, the brunt falling on
I'D taxpayers, not the inconsider-
Able new war workers g million
lew Victory taxpayers pay only
62 million dollars).
A struggling married wage earn
getting $4,000 today must pay
20 percent or $1,000 to his federal
sovernment, in addition to state
md county taxes and other federal
Avies on cigarets, liquor, etc.
k +E
rs Real Struggle
ALI you hear are expert argu-
uts about initiation with gener-
I'D overall national figures
aoout swollen incomes, nothing
Poout this $4,000 man trying to buy
'onds, pay withholding, terrific
Prces, and raise a family on about
lalf or less of what he earns.
No one, absolutely no one, takes
ne part of the individual tax
aver. The way the propaganda
as been set up, it is considered
Unpopular, even remotely unpatri-
nc to do so.
But generalized average taxa
% already is $357 per person
ss compared with $2sl in Brit
q and s2sl in Canada. and our
sopls already pay eight times
s'fs than in World War !.
), xxx
1sacle Needed to
'M Election in "A
Mr. Roosevelt, the miracle man
politics, is now supposed to be
'a,pplng up another one for 1914.
aus tactics abroad confirm the
pectation within Democratic
Hs that he will again completely
organize his lines for the COM
election. Certainly miracle is
LANDED by the current condition
me Democratic party and the
veo, worn strategems of the
ew Deal.
JUS actions suggest he is work.
toward two main develop
s' an agreement with Russia
as a unified permanent
rlcan foreign policy, but as
aMipnal Roosevelt venture, en-
.ed by him alone and to be
w MN alone)-and secondly,
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