Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 26, 8 October 1936 — REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN DATA ON FEDERAL TAXES CALLED FALSE BY TIME MAGAZINE [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN DATA ON FEDERAL TAXES CALLED FALSE BY TIME MAGAZINE

Unaer the heading "Taxe« &j Truth," Time, the j no defender of t]ie New Deal»i displayed an utter lQss'of *patienee wUh Goy. Alf M. La:pdQn. for his attempt to ,show th.at the Federal Governnient coUecta 58 varieties of indirect taxes oa food, clotiiing, cigarettes and gasoline." Time quotes the GOP nominee as saying "The share |Of the cost of gOYernment falling mainly on those with ineomea of $25 a or less, has ineressed 25 per cent duriiig the three years of the present administration," and adds:

"Pollomng up Nominee Lan don's lead, tl\e Repubiican NaUonai Committee scatered tver the U, S. a sheaf oJ press releases on t-axation, a brochure entiUed 'Soak the Rich Taxes Really Soak the Foor,' Purpose of both was to depict ihe tax load supposedly borne bs the little Man. Average man reāecte; 'I

headiine: orders Keds ,in U. S. to Back Roosevelt,'" the i'ani the G,OP. passed on to her and otlier Repul?licaii woaieu workers.

"\'cur spottscsrsiiii? uf Uūs fake is &u ūr4>o&iUo&i ou Uie ri*lit o£ Uie ix\>pie U a £ree pr«ss," ih« Timcs conctu<ied op€*a ktter lo thc Oivi Quard outfit. "II you iiav<o a caiitrsaY upiniou, pk&se prese:u your evidence to the, Aiuericaxi oi Kewspaper, Ediiors or Uie Amenean News-, poper Pubii£liers As&ocl&tiou aiid, i£ i'our proo£ is suf(icāeut W wia Uieir endorse:ueat ol the Tribuae's su>ry as auUieuUe ue*£, ,we wiii pAi" Uie $s*ooo to tb« ,Fjxcdo4u oi U;e fress CouuiiĀ.ttee ,of Uie Americ;ui Fufc-. A&^oeiaUou.''

paid $1.50 ?or this shirt. S2 t&xes took 29 cents of the price. Sixtythree taxes took $3.53 p£ tixis $18 tsUik F<aiy-three t&xes t&x eoiiectors tooK 59 eents of the $3 I |pald for this hat.' In the course of the day the taspayer eounla 1,200 t&xes, his wile 1,500. "The Republicans docftimented thetr case wlth a l!st oT 5? tases whleh, they el{ttoed, added a c«its t©~flte prlce of hreftd An aTnasdng polllleal *document; the Hst contained NOT 58 different kinds of tAxes, but only 16 tjpes, they h&ā mult!pl3ed applving them at wieh step In the pr>ocess <\f mafelat §©od sell!n# a lea? of brefcd. Thus a Pedeml ineome tax pald by farmer« graln elevator, f!our mill, miwiaA, flour truAer, baker and ret«tl dlstrībutor emmted as seren taxes Svea after muUipllealion, it w»s evident that of the 16 kinds of only three vere Federal, ineome tm cap!ta! stock &nd on excess "Tfcese three, the only ones whieh Alf t,andon po«areduce ?f he vent to the Whlte House, vere not hid<len but PEKKei taxes. whieh he ssdd at Bufīalc he favors."

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