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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
I WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1923
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HOSE who urge a State Income Tax Claim that 85 per cent of our taxes are paid
-li by real property and that the farmers bear most of this burden. Is it true? The
answer is given in the following tax tables, official and authoritative, j The farmer is
not bearing all the burden. Neither the farmer nor the laboring lyian would benefit
by the adoption of such a scheme. Neither was honestly considered by the m
framed it. Here is the truth about taxes : I r
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Th? jDnIy; tax burden re
dced by a state income
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i tas would be the state tax.
,vhich' amounts to but 7.2
i roilli of the entire burden.
AH other taxes, municipal.
tv : tchoojj, rpad3 and county.
would remain on the tax
' ' rolls just as they are today.
V Inpoi3ies;as Jow. as $20 a
. week would be subjects to
. the state income tax. tyo
PROFERTY-TAX
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FACTS
All Property Taxes .evied in 1923 in Oregon State, County, City, School,! Road and Other Local
SOURCE Property Taxes. Per Ct.
Property inside limits of cities, including railroads and public utilities ... $22,026,211'
Farms
Timber lands and lumber industry outside of cities .
AH other property outside of cities, including railroads and public utilities 3,385,010
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5,611,990
53.7
24.4
13.7
8.2
Total :
Compiled by C. C. Chapman, Editor Oregon Voter,
! . ....$4 1,038,632 100.0
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Operation of on IncQmo-Tax department
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Such a tax would curtail
the employment of labor
and impede tbe progress of
industry.
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INCOME FROM OREGON INDUSTRIES
Sources .of Income From Which Taxes Are Paid Duplications Eliminated-
Each Item Shows Total and Per Cent of State Income Obtained by All the
People Engaged in Triat Line
Agriculture ....-. I . $166,400,000
' Minfn&Y qnarrying ,and - fishing ..L-. U.. 3,316,000
Manufacturing, including lumber 7.... '. : .- 137,640,000
Construction, including road, railroad and public utility : ........ 31,000,000
Automotive industryf.........-........-.. -1 . 21,000,000
Personal service,' including restaurants, amusements, laun
dries, dyers and cleaners, milliners, etc 27,000,000
Rail and water transportation and public utilities i 38,000,000
Trader-wholesale, retail, foreign i ... 77,000,000
Financial institutions, insurance and realty dealers . 13,500,000
Rents, royalties, interest, pensions and miscellaneous I 76,000,000
Professions ..L . ; : .L 18,000,000
Governmental service, federal, state and local ............... 23,100,000
Total u.: j . ....,....$631.956.000
26.3
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21.8
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4.3
6.0
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12.0
2.9
3.7!
$11170,000 20.8
2,100,000 .4
115,260,000 21.6
y 34,000,000 6.4
28,000,000 5i
25,000,000 4.7
41,000,000 7.7
62,000,000 11.6
12,500,000 2.3
61,000,000 11.4
16,500,000 3.1
26,000,000 4.9
$534,630,000 100.0
Complied by C. C. Chapman, Editor Oregon Voter.
If the farmer had been con-
sidered a property; of fset h
provision would have been
a part of the measure, al-v
lowing the deduction of a
property tax from an ; in- l
come tax9 or an income tax
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from a property tax, r Do ' . '
you like double taxation?,
Montana, Washington and
California have emphati-
cally turned down .. similar
measures. Such a tax
would increase the tax
burden of the farmer.
Why did they exempt corporation dividends from income tax
ation? Why did they exempt banks, insurance companies
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: POLLS
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State Income Tax Referendum League
- Cyril G. Brownell, President.
t i 801 iycpx Bids:, Portland, Oregon
Jear Sir: Enclosed find $1.00 for memberqjiip in the
STAXB i INCOME TAX REFERENDUM LEAGUE. s
NameI ...
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Against State Income Tax
November 6, 1923
STATE INCOME TAX REFERENDUM LEAGUE
CYRIL . BROWNELL, President
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