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Editorial
October 29, 1924
Vilas County News
Eagle River, Vilas County, Wisconsin
What is this article about?
Editorial criticizes burdensome taxes in California, exemplified by Southern Pacific's $8.4 million payment for 1924, urges voters to elect candidates who reduce waste from useless boards and commissions, notes taxes are passed to consumers, and ends with a remark on high murder rate in America.
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Taxes Up To Voters.
If taxes be burdensome, as they assuredly are, the people have only themselves to blame, for the remedy lies in an intelligent use of the ballot on election days. Determine before voting how a candidate stands on the tax question. Pin him right down to definite explanations. Taxpayers are being bled white to support numerous and useless boards and commissions many of them duplicating work to effect a pretense of necessity, and creating in the first instance as "lying-in hospitals" for faddists or political parasites.
The taxpayers have a right to relief from such tax burdens which have grown heavier and heavier until to many they have become almost confiscatory. Take for example the state taxes assessed against the Southern Pacific in the single state of California for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, amounting to $8,469,067. This means that this corporation paying its state taxes only, must pay into the treasury of the state of California more than $23,000 every day.
Some people imagine that because a corporation pays it they are not concerned, but every dollar of such taxes paid by a railroad is indirectly paid by the users of the railroad. Taxes are included in the cost of transportation and are part of price paid for fruit, livestock, lumber, shoes, suit of clothes, or groceries, and the local dealer tacks a little on for good measure to cover his own taxes.
Life is cheap in America where we have seventeen murders for one in England.
If taxes be burdensome, as they assuredly are, the people have only themselves to blame, for the remedy lies in an intelligent use of the ballot on election days. Determine before voting how a candidate stands on the tax question. Pin him right down to definite explanations. Taxpayers are being bled white to support numerous and useless boards and commissions many of them duplicating work to effect a pretense of necessity, and creating in the first instance as "lying-in hospitals" for faddists or political parasites.
The taxpayers have a right to relief from such tax burdens which have grown heavier and heavier until to many they have become almost confiscatory. Take for example the state taxes assessed against the Southern Pacific in the single state of California for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, amounting to $8,469,067. This means that this corporation paying its state taxes only, must pay into the treasury of the state of California more than $23,000 every day.
Some people imagine that because a corporation pays it they are not concerned, but every dollar of such taxes paid by a railroad is indirectly paid by the users of the railroad. Taxes are included in the cost of transportation and are part of price paid for fruit, livestock, lumber, shoes, suit of clothes, or groceries, and the local dealer tacks a little on for good measure to cover his own taxes.
Life is cheap in America where we have seventeen murders for one in England.
What sub-type of article is it?
Taxation
Economic Policy
What keywords are associated?
Tax Burden
Voter Ballot
Government Waste
Corporate Taxes
Consumer Costs
What entities or persons were involved?
Southern Pacific
California
Taxpayers
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Voter Responsibility For Reducing Tax Burdens
Stance / Tone
Critical Of Government Waste And High Taxes, Urging Electoral Action
Key Figures
Southern Pacific
California
Taxpayers
Key Arguments
Taxes Are Burdensome And Self Inflicted Through Poor Voting
Useless Boards And Commissions Duplicate Work And Support Political Parasites
Taxpayers Deserve Relief From Nearly Confiscatory Burdens
Southern Pacific Pays Over $23,000 Daily In California State Taxes For 1924
Corporate Taxes Are Passed On To Consumers Via Higher Prices
Life Is Cheap In America With Seventeen Murders Per One In England