Accordin' to the state auditor over
$2,000,000 tax money is to be raised for
state purposes over what was raised
laBt
year and that in spite oif the in
crease in gross earnings tax from rail
roads. It looks like this awful extrav
agance was goin' to end up some time.
It's the same in local taxes. Taxes up
to Austin they say are gettin' to be
confiscatory of property. Ain't it queer
that Bome bunch don't get together en
the economy prop and appeal to the
people for support and' run public
affairs, state and local, on economy
rules same as private business? One
man told me that he couldn't stand up
in his own business a month it it was
run same as the public business is con
ducted. It looks like this was the big
issue. This everlastin' grindin' just to
raise tax money or else hav your prop
erty sold is gettin' played out. The
officials who handle our money from
governor down don't seem to stop to
ask how they can save but how they
can spend.
Now they've got up a National One
Cent Letter Postage association to try
to knock down letter postage to one
cent and 1 notis that those who are
pushin' the move are the big firms in
the cities. The common people don't
ask for it or need it. I don't write but
one or two letters a week and the differ
won't swamp me but the big city busi
ness houses who use millions of stampB
every year are hot to get the redaction.
