The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-19
COMMUNICATION

pire:- Will you please publish the following communication, which ex- plains itself, addressed as follows: ! Tyee, Alaska, February l5, l945
 MT. Frank Gordon. Chairman Senate's Taxation and Revenau Committee.
 Dear MT. Gordon.
 Your Senate Bill No. 12 is a sab otage to the war effort, if ever l saw one, Especially coming at this time. It means that the worker will have to set the machinery in motion for an increase in pay, and as member of the Fisheman's Union, and a member of the Brotherhood Of Railroad Tramnman will take the mater up with tke verious local unions and help set the machinery in motion to get this increase this gsascn, after all the worker would like to have little left out of his pay, just in case he or member of his family should get sick or | be out of work threw no fault Of his own with out going in debt.
 After all the bill is directed pri- marily at the worker.
 The workers of Alaska has and will always buy there share of War Bonds and will continue to do so, that is if you law makers will just leave us a little over and above out taxes to do it with, You have heard no complaint from the worker about taxes he has had to pay and will continue pay to help the win ming Of this war, we do not need any more local taxes at this time, any more than we need an increase in the cost of living or an increase ] in wages, but if you law makers ! tack more taxes, well you have start led the ball rolling on toward infla- tion and upsetting our hole econ- cmy, cant you leave things alone and as they are, at least until after the war, that is time enough to talk about taxes.
 Now you want Supervisor of Taxation appointed by the Governor, at a salary of $7,500 year, that's to much there is war on.
 You want an appropriation of s125 000. what for, and for two years, what are you going to do with the taxes. You expect to start collecting these taxes April lst, this year, if you have got to pass this bill why not appropriate just enough, say for one year, after all this is our money you law makers are kicking around. and the war still goes on,
 I am not lawyer or a polite ian and can not write letters like lawyers and politician you cant read any how, but the man on the street like my self can read mine, and we do know when he have got enough taxes and are Beginning to want to know just what is hecomeing of our dough. it is becomeing a habit to pass laws to have employers hold out this and hold out that I am not objecting to the withholding of taxes by our employers, that is a good thing as every one will have to pay, and that is as it should be, but we are going to have more to say in just how much you law makers are going to have our em- ptoyers take out of our pay checks, you know MT, Law maker we work l CTS and consumers figure we at least have 50 cents taken out of every dollar we earn threw taxes, and now your tax of $40. plus 2.2. per cent on 5000, or more am useing this figure as it is the one that hits most of us workers.
 There is the 20 per cent Federal withholding tax, and tax on every thing we buy, from tooth powder to shoe strings, Class tax Oil tax. amusement tax in fact you cant buy a thing that is not taxed, add them all up and you see what mean,
 If business man is taxed, well we pay that to, he just adds that on 10 his cost and we the worker and consumer pay it. What gripes me and a lot of others, is when you ran for the Senate, you said nothing about any tax bill, and now you are railroadinp this tax bill with out the men and women out here in the sticks and who have to pay this unfair tax with out giving us word to say anything about it, I am wondering if it would be unfair to ask you fellows who are in there throwing bills around, to pass bill where there is any money involved, to hold such bills at least until every one in the Territory has time to let you know if we like it or not.
 To bad the O.P.A. cant put finger on you law makers and put a ceiling on taxes to.
 I do not suppose this letter will get in in time to register our objec- ton to this tax bill. Any how Il hope it does.
 (Signed Very sincerely yours,-J. H. Sawyer, 25 years in Alaska.
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