The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-16

neau and said if the building were
 to be located outside the city it ] would pay an annual tax of more than S3.000 on full valuation. That would take most of the urofit that might be expected from inc building" Faulkner said.
 Cyrus Peck, Grand President of the Alaska Native Brotherhood; David Howard. Sr., boatbuilder and sherman, and William s. Sutton also a boatbuilder and fisherman
 all from Sitka, stated their opposi- j tion to the property tax measure.
 Boat owners are already paying
 tax and should not be addition l ally burdened, Peck said. This is irst one more burden on the work l ing man of Alaska and it will cut he lifeline of the fisherman,' he ! added.
 Asked by Senator McCutcheon
 whether he would prefer a l0-mill property tax to a sales tax, Peck 1 said that he is already paying 2 safes tax in Sitka for the support 1 of the schools there.
 He thought that doubling the school Tax should provide ample revenues for school purposes. Taxed To Death ETc,,orI opI Sutton anraol u,it1- ! Peck. You are supposed to be 1 eane people, but from what I have cen you are going to tax anything out of existence" Sutton declared After Senator Rivers had pro- tested his admittance and Senator Ccllins had objected to appiica-
 ion of "any gag rule" Rep. Marcus Jensen, who had led the fight or ths property tax Bill in the House appeared before the Senate tc tate his views on the measure. Announcing that he wanted the l best possible tax measures for the
 Territory, Rep. Jensen said that he dces not believe the property tax I Is the answer to Alaskas revenue ptoblens.
 The biggest objection to it i. {, that the Territory is not living or its own resources but is presently supported by an inflated govern ment economy" Rep. Jensen said He told the Senators that ht would find the property tax les. oblectional if the Territory's majol industries were operated on a veal around basis.
 Prefers Sales Tax After accompanying Senator Riv. , CTS deep into the intricacies of tal ti.cery and learning hat they helt widely divergent views, Rep. Jsnsel I got to Senator McCutcheon's $6. 1 question: Would you prefer thre; | cer cent sales tax?'
 Rep. Jensen said that he would nd for two reasons.
 For one thing, he said, the trent
 in the states is away from prop 1 erty taxes and toward sales ant ! income taxes for the bulk of reven | ues.
 | For another. he pointed out, tn,
 Federal government has shown tha i the income tax can be less burden
 some by budgeting it and deductinl
 it from paychecks. The sales ta,
 works the same way, Rep. Jensel {! said, ir that it is a pay as yol go" tax and does not pile up int big tax bill that must be me 1 once a year.
 Tonnage Tax Again i, A second attempt to introduce al !, alternate tonnage tax on vessels in i to the Bill was made by Senator Jones and Rivers, but without sue cess.
 l Senator R. M. Mackenzie support ed their efforts, pointing out tha 1 tho tonnage tax would eliminat :, the necessity for difficult and cost ly appraisals of vessels. Senator Frank Peratrovich sai
 that he had talked with numbe
 Of boat owners and that they ha
 agreed to go along with a tonnag
 tax at the rate of $5 a ton. ! The amendment, first at S3 ton and then at $5 ton, was vote, down.
 The Bill will make its next ap , pearance in the Senate in thir
 reading when the final argumen will be heard.
 Expenses Voted
 The Senate unanimously approv
 ed the $111,000 appropriation t | pay for Territorial expenses of tn
 regular session of the Nineteent
 Legislature after Senators Collin
 and Andersen had been assure that the appropriation contains a
 item sufficient to take the legisla 1 tors to Sitka to inspect the Pic
 neers' Home.