The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-01-19

attorney, speaking DeIOre Cne
Farmers Union School in Great
Falls last week, said the theory
that the power to tax is the
power to destroy only applies
where taxes are levied inequit-
ably, and if the principle that
cooperative refunds to patrons can
be taxed then any money passing
through anyone's hands can be taxed.
This would apply to church or charit-
able organizations and it would only
take bill through the legislature to
do it they can single out any
individual and tax him whatever they
want.
eff you can single out people you
can destroy any one", he said. ut
can ruin the entire economy of the
United States and it can ruin any
body they want to point the finger
att
He stated there are three kinds of
corporations. One is where the gen.
eral public invests and is interested
only in whether the money invested
will bring return. These people are
not interested in the product but
whether they make money.
The second is an operational cor
poration where people have property
and put it into corporation for bet
ter operational considerations.
The third is a service corporation
such as a cooperative, which is not
interested in making money. The
interest in it is what it can do for
you such as purchase supplies at a
saving or selling product for more
money.
The intent and purposes are diff
ferent. The law restricts operations
so they serve the purposes they say
they want to serve.
A cooperative never pays. There
is no dividend. 1t only saves. There
are no dividends in a cooperative
there are only refunds. There is
no income in a cooperative. There
is a contract with the individual
to pay back everything above and
beyond the cost of doing business,
Gilfeather stated.
ACTION NEEDS
A BASE OF IDEALS
Speaking at the school on political
action, Charlotte Holtz said the first |
step is to establish some idea of what |
the problems are and what we want |
to do about them. Political action |
deals with the good of all the people
and only through political action can
you get the things you need in a
democracy, she said. 1t is the most
thing people can do, but
if you are going to take part in
political action you must know what |
you are doing and the most important !
thing is to have an ideal, and de-
sire to do something with your life
besides making money.
The pressures from the extreme
right are going to be the most diff
cult thing to deal with in the COM
ing election, Mrs. Holtz said, but
if you stand for anything you are
going to have to expect to be
called names.
She emphasized the need to work
It every level of politics from pre-
inct committeeman on up if the
system is going to be
neaningful, and if the people are
,oing to have something besides a
hoice of evils.
RESOURCE
DRAGS
In a panel on Water and Power,
,arl Kraenzel, MISC; Left Erickson, !
Ielena attorney, and Don Chapman,
ormer president of the Montana
'armers Union, discussed Montana's
resent crippled condition in rela- !.
onship to our resource development.
Kraenzel pointed out that in the
asst ten years Montana's population il
the productive age group 18 f
"a years had increased only 4
90 or mere three thousand people. [
n either side of this age group, IN t.
lie non-productive and consuming g
gment of the population, the in il
eases have been quite startling. b
40 aoa oro11n hollow 12 has increased