TAXATION METHODS
SOME NOVEL SUGGESTIONS MADE
Thousands of letters have poured in to' the United States Departments responsible : for the consideration of revenue, legislation, suggesting new methods of taxation. , Single people wish, to tax, babies, many, married meii and woman think, that bachelors and old maids ought to pay a special tax, while there were hundfhdis of suggestions along the line of . revenue from taxes ert do^s,-.cats and pet birds. Seme vegetarians want a,, heavy . , tax cn jrieV:, and the more ecrltsiast.cal argue,.for a. tax on divorce,?.
A .Philadelphia professor wrote suggesting a 50 per cent., tax on all .salaries over IOO,|OOO ,do%rv a special tax for presidents of tobacco companies who “teach cli .l’ren that cigarettes are better ( fnr them than, candy,” a fifty dollar, head tax on every church in the Ibnd, and confiscation of all valuables left by persons who died without children, and. \v;hosd, relatives were not in urgent need of legacies. The list of suggestions appears to include everything untaxed as suitable obEcts for taxation. .
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1932, Page 6
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170TAXATION METHODS Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1932, Page 6
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