Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
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High Taxes Boost Prices


For one fat hog we can get
carpenter for two days and he
sharpens his tools on our time
besides.
This hog requires IL months
from breeding time to selling
time and plenty of feed, care and
risk.
For one fat lamb plus So we
can get a plasterer for six hours.
For the eggs from 72O hens in
one day plus $500 we can hire
painter for eight hours. That
Is figuring eggs at 72 cents and
SIS a day which painters want.
For one 14-months-old steer
(23 months from breeding date)
at rs cents pound we can get
10 pieces Of l by IL inch board
10 feet long, second quality. We
have to feed and entertain the
COW and calf for % months.
For three big turkeys 1 got
bAA &C nOUAS WUAh 8kAh0A8
valves on my car, viz, $1S.75,
not counting extras.
For IL fat hens f1eighbor got
tooth pulled.
/ am not trying to be funny,
just giving you facts and can
furnish many more.
The President wants to ec0nO-
mize. All right, just start at the
top and come down and he'll find
us on the bottom.
Fred Lee.
Pomona, Calf.
I could not. if l wished, dispute
the figures of that farmer contribu-
tor. / do not hold brief for the
$25 a day the plasterer is credited
with receiving, but does not; or the
81 pound he pays for bacon, and
which the farmer does not receive.
But-'the pot calling the kettle
black" does not uncover the real
culprit or does not provide remedy
for excessive prices.
We Americans pay approximately
one and a half times as much for
government as we pay to eat.
Reduce government expenditures
curb the gun-toting tax collector
and we will have solved much of the
problem Of high prices. Prohigate
extravagant, wasteful government il
the culprit.
We do not realize the taxes we
are paying. They are purposely Gov
cred up by every tax levying anc
tax spending government, local
state or federal. Those who cover W
point the finger of guilt at the farm
er or at the worker as being respon
sible for our price troubles.
LEvIES BOOST COST.
For that pound of bacon, for whicl
the plasterer paid 81. the farme
received 80 cents, less the taxes h
paid on his farm, on the transporta
ton of the bacon to market, AM
any profit he may have made ol
the hog. Between the farm and tina
plasterer's breakfast table, tina
pound of bacon passed throug
many hands. and each one VIII
touched it was assessed tax. Their
was a multiplicity of taxes, all {
which were, of necessity, added a
parts Of the price the plasterer mus
pay.
On the other hand, the plas-
terer pays, not one, but several
taxes on what he receives as
wages. To cover the cost of those
several taxes and the cost Of
the taxes on the bacon he buys,
he demands more wages. More
wages mean higher costs for
what he produces, with more to
go for taxes. Back along much
the same road as that travelled
by the pound Of bacon, goes the
product of the plasterer to the
farmer, and the farmer pays the
multiplicity Of taxes that have
accumulated along the way.
Our excessive prices are cause
largely by the extravagant ar
wasteful costs of bureaucracy /;
Washington, in our state capito
| and our county and municipal bull
ings. 1t is the tax on tax, and ia
again to cover the ever expandir
expenditures of our elected official
whose every thought seems to be {
how to get more money. and no
to cover the getting.
We, the voters of the nation, c;
collectively stop the operation of Il
vicious system when, and if, v
wish. We can demand a simplifi,
form of tax levying, so we will kno
the exact amount of taxes cat
one pays.
AS it is now we are wasting o.
time and our energies in each p
calling each kettle black and pe
mitting the real culprit to get avn
with the loot.
1t is not efficiency that regu-
lates the salaries of bureau
chiefs in Washington. If one be-
comes so proficient that he per.
forms the work of his bureau
with a decreased number of EN-.
plOyees he is compensated by a
cut in his own salary. To get a