European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Come tax is sob by Robert Johnson Nan Stafl writer Rowe income tax got itself officially x installed in american life lust 50 years Aio. In 1913, Wyoming became the 36th state to ratify the 16th amendment and the government s right to tax a Man earnings became constitutional and seemingly perpetual. Uncle Sam s revenues have travelled a Jong Way during the past . So years later the income tax Burden borne by his nephews and nieces is Virtu ally As heavy As it Ever was but our is Cal failures Worsen and our National indebtedness grows steadily larger., when the income tax started it was truly a tax on the Rich because less than one per cent of the population earned enough to pay any. The Topmost Rale was Only seven per cent. Even the costs of world War i did t bring the income us Home to the avenge american wage earner. Our population exceeded 10aomx000 in Ubo. Yet us Rel Uriu were required of Only Moon Foo. The grand total of 2 was levied in 1830on he avenge Man with two children who earned 1moo. Today this same nun still would be about Max and in addition he would be hit her about to in other Leof and hidden axes Yean Hall a Century ago Thein Ceme tax ranked As a decidedly lesser mores of government Revenue bringing Uncle Ben Well under jbooao.000 annually. These payt. The Levy is Eugenua to die government s Enton tax program it bring sin Moo times More Money. We have about Koltl persons spending Over Simmom rear to administer the tax sweetheart of a Law now runt More than Loq pages in length. No wonder Only a comparative handful of experts Van pretend to grasp Ita meaning. But. Not too difficult to grasp Are these sobering facts the avenge american pays about 390 a year in income tax. The average family pays Over 12.900 a year i various taxes. And yet this avenge fam ily s share of the Federal red Ink totals e Marvel of an history is the patience with which men and women submit to i burdens unnecessarily Laid upon them by their government it once Una remarked by Idaho sen William e. Borah in this world nothing in certain but death and taxes Benjamin Franklin had said. Yet it was a bitter Pill or Amer tonns to accept the government permanently to King a piece out of Man s earnings. After All. Had t taxes helped drive us into fighting Lor our Independence in the first place and afterwards had t it taken George Washington with 15.000 militiamen to quell the rebellion against taxes in Pennsylvania when there is an income tax Plato had written centuries before Christ the just Man will pay mow and the unjust less on the same amount of this philosophic axiom got a tremendous Shak ing when withholding of taxes at the source was adopted just 20 years ago. Ever since then As might be expected,.malms for tax deductions and refunds have Hen a major stimulant to what you might cat creative writing it might have bet a a bit harsh for British prime minister William e. Gladstone to say thai income Tux Mokes a nation of Mars but certainly the temptation to fib a Little on the tax return is International. Ralph Waldo Emerson said of Henry d. Thoreau that no truer american eve lived and the new England philosopher also was described As the most Brilliant Dexter of government and society Amer Cahas Ever Thore Aci went to jail rather than submit to tuxes and urged Emerson to do the same. For years some of our most important men of Commerce found Legal Means of circumventing the tax Laws. The banker j. P. Morgan the younger for example successfully avoided paying any income tax for years. Alfred p. Sloan or. The automotive magnate saved close to $250. 000 income taxes from 1931 to 1936 by forming a separate corporation to build and operate his yacht Rene. Some big fumes have been violent lax objector too. In Germany for officials had frequent trouble with Man who hag luxurious apartment chauffeured car and an expensive country Home but who reported Little May recall the name of this errant taxpayer Adolf Hitler. He fixed Matterson becoming Chancellor by having his in come declared exempt from taxation. Even today there Are some prominent americans who Stilt dream of an end tothe income tax. One la copt Eddie Ilcken Backer. The world War i Ace and aviation a Cut Lve. Who feels the Levy could be eliminated if Federal spending were curbed. Other Natoni finally have put an end to taxes that Wen collected for then Longe than the United states. Britain for instance for 1� Yean col tested a tax on the number of windows Inone s House. For we Over 100 years. It had a Levy on making candles or finally abandoned these. Some other strange taxes Rome taxed funerals Greece doorways Russia beards and England horses. " in recent years doctors have become Miller with uie typical patient suffering april 13th disease High blood pressure and insomnia with no physical ailment to account for these symptoms. Especially at this time of year they be come to recognize such patients As reacting to anxiety Over their tax problems and to ease such to Lions by advising patients to make clean breast of things and. If necessary throw themselves on internal Revenue mercy. At new York s Institute of psychological research or. Irving Large has said that a person s whole personality May be read la hit tax time behaviour. For example ii he puts off tiling his return to the last the stars and 3tjuhj 9, minute. It my be because his Parent always permuted him to delay unpleasant duties while a child and he simply con Bear to part with Money. On the other hand it May be that he dreaming up every possible excuse for tax deduction and Sable. The prow wits with then return died at the Chance of being in the claims co no doubt you see funny about your return. But the spire a lot of this time. You by some of the that will pass info april to let letter received Boston trom easily see that i Ollsen had Wal Tatev the 1800 we sch i by the Iowa girl her tax return and who replied the " ailing to i an seven Yean. Ton the local internal an actor listed spent Lor false noise in his allowed Thistle Teeth Wen Only during purposes As Watt. Uncle Sam has i of course. Be company to african safari of publicity stunt Lowed another or a cities on a entertain Erate and biplane. Nobody know that to Rich an dodging the tax col Rich Man gets goo but no advice in
