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About The Beaverton enterprise. (Beaverton, Or.) 1927-1951 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1947)
BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE Friday, October 3, 1947 ! BABSON DISCUSSES FARM PRICES !*■■■■! During the past 24 hours 11 sort of reduction in personal In- 1 hav.e been flying over the great - come taxes in 194« farming area of the Central Present Food Price JL<1N l J Q U . i L X y l v ^ i L Î West. I have not only seen inveetlgatlo»* things with my eyes, but also There ls much talk in the heard things with my ears. BUSINESS OFFICE AND P L A N T newspapers about distributors Tualatin Valley Highway and Short Street — Beaverton Phone 2321 Farmers Not Being Fooled and processors of food products! Let me first say that farmers taking advantage of the present | Published Friday of each week by The Pioneer Publishing Co., at are not being fooled by these squeeze in food prices and sys- I Beaverton, Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office high prices. They know that tematically gouging the poor $290 for wheat and $2.65 for consumer. Quite frankly, I think Beaverton, Oregon. corn is not going to hold. They this is plainly propaganda. The STANLE Y W. NETHERTON ..................... Editor and Publisher remember that, throughout all fact is that in most instances, MRS EDNA B L A C K ........ .............. Associate Editor-Office Mgr. U. S. history, only during and the farmers’ percentage profit W AI.I.Y K A IN ____________________ K iw i Edltoi directly after wars, have farm margins today are no greater What has hap JOHN L. T R E E M A N .................................... Circulation-Advertising ers made such money. Moreover, than normal. the wise ones are now using pened is that, due to a higher their profits to get out of debt, dollar volume of business, the SU B SC R IPTIO N K A T E S — P A Y A B L E IN A D V A N C E to buy for cash new machinery, normal profit margin produces OUTSIDE T E R R ITO R IE S In W aahlntlon and Multnomah Counties One Year . MOO One Y #*r «.*# and lay up a good bank balance more dollar profits. Hence, do ....................................... Two Yeara ...................... *.16 for the future. not blame the farmers. Three Yeara .............................. 3.00 MEMBER Oregon Newspaper Publisher s ’ They also tell me that altho 6 Months ...................... 1.6* The real villian in the picture Association. farm prices rise gradually dur is unprecedented demand for ing boom time, yet when prices farm products both at home, fall, they collapse all at once where consumer income has nev This is because farmers get pan er been so high, and from Europe Ic stricken when they see prices where famine conditions are so Tuesday, October 7, another day when the responsibilities of begin to fall and all farmers try prevalent. W e are eating more good citizenship demand that registered voters go to the polls and to dump at once. They admit and wasting a greater volume of vote. For the fifth time in fifteen years, Oregonians are called they are now playing the same food, per capita, than ever be upon to decide whether or not tax structures be revised to allow with wheat and corn as invest fore. Even a very small reduc the introduction of a state sales tax of 3% on any and all retail ors in 1929 played with stocks tion in our consumption of food and bonds. would prevent a serious squeeze sales of tangible personal property. The tax will likewise be Beamons for Higher Prices on food prices which we now levied for the privilege of using within this state any article of (1) Exports to Europe. Dur face. It is most desirable to be tangible personal property purchased subsequent to passage of the ing 1946 more than 15,000,000 frugal, at this time, not only act. tons of food were shipped to to assist those who are less for Included in exemptions from the tax are retail sales of human Europe. Heavy movements of tunate. but to help avoid a dras food, newspapers, religious literature and a few other items. foodstuffs to Europe will con tic deflation as a result of further Characterized by Its backers as relief for state Income levies and tinue due to its poor crop con price rises. Food is the most im a source of revenue for cities, counties, school districts and state ditions. portant item in the average fam (2) Poor U. S. weather con ily budget. This is the basic ans welfare funds, the ballot title indicates the major cut from its pro American grain wer to the problem of food posed revenues will be “ two-sixths to general fund for governmen ditions. The harvest will he 15,000,000 ton* prices today. tal purposes’. spring Sales-tax forces, in the official state voter’s - pamphlet, put out under normal, due to by the Secretary of State, have prepared a comprehensive table- floods and unsatisfactory grow Very frequently a fight for ing conditions, with a constant based on national consumer expenditures for 1945- which purports what is right degenerates into ly increasing population. a quarrel for what is left. to show "extensive boosts’’ in state income tax payments for the (3) Wasteful American Eat $5,IKK) to $10,000 brackets of taxpayers, should the bill fail of on ing Habits. Americans have al actment. ways been the most wasteful Even though figures based on 1945 prices could not lie expected to people in the world when it Sec us for the following carry through in 1947, a $5,000 income would be saved $1.34 per comes to food consumption. year in state payments while $10,000 earnings would save $<i.90 per High consumer income has in year in tax payments, by passage of the levy. creased this wastefulness. On the other hand, gross income of $1,000 would pay an estimat (4) Putting So Much Grain In ed $4.50 per year; $1,200 an annual tax of $5.88 and $1,500 would be to Liquor. The eight billion dol assessed $9.60- even though none of the three classifications would lar liquor business consumes l»e subject to state Income tax, regardless of the fate of the pro huge quantities of grain for brew ing of alcoholic beverages. De J. I. Case Co's Tractors and posed measure. spite starvation abroad, this Sales tax opponents, pointing to the records of Washington and Farm Machinery “ n«D-essential” industry contin California and their sales-tax experiences, argue such levies en ues uninterrupted in the pro Gibson Tractors courage easy spendings but at the same time do not tend to lower duction of liquor. property taxes. (5) Increase In the Currency and attachments Another of their many objections is that a sales tax merely “ pas From $7,000,000,000 to $27,000,- ses the buck”, taxing the necessity to spend rather than the ability 000, (K)0. The tremendous in Planet, Jr. Garden crease in currency since before to pay. Oregon State Grange and Organized Labor are in the forefront the war has greatly stimulated Tractors and Equipment the power of the American pub against enactment of the sales tax. Myers Pnmps and Sharing the ballot, a cigarette tax bill would levy two cents a lic to purchase food products. package on cigarettes until a general sales tax were adopted. Op W A IT IN G FOR THE Water Systems position to this assessment stems from two main arguments: Cigaret 1948 T A X B ILL There Is a good reason to be tes are already taxed 6.8c jn-r package, making further tax inequit Milwankie Rotary Tillers lieve that large amounts of grain able and discriminatory; and cost of administering the measure are held on the farm. This is not Essick Weed Control would be passed to the buying public in excess of the two cent tax. just a case w'here farmers are Regardless of arguments for or against these two measures voters gambling that prices will contin Sprayers must vote and vote inteligently. Such is the essanee of democratic ue to rise above present inflated levels. Grain farmers are fully a- government. Jndson Lime Sowers • were that there is an excellent The People must be heard! Vaughn Drag Saws chance that the personal income tax may he reduced in 1948. The Parts and Service farmer asks himselfthe question: “ Why should I sell my grain now and pay an income tax on COLUMBIA AGRIC. Repercussion from national grain and livestock market# have the proceeds at the 1947 rate SUPPLY & EQUIP. CO. showed in fluttery local trading. Consumers, oppressed by un when 1 can wait until 1948 and heard of high prices for bare necessities, have begun to wonder take advantage of a new tax law 1717 S. E. 3rd Avenue whether such uneasiness marks the beginning, the end or a freak more favorable to the taxpay PORTLAND, OREGON ish respite from astronomical prices which will only lead to more ers?.’’ Certainly with an election year coming up, politicians will outlandish heights for the soaring costs of living. From the Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index, of look with great favor on some . . . W ORKERS!! BEAVERTON, : : Reduce Your State Income T A X E S- 'PEOPLE MUST BE HEARD' Reduce Taxes On Y our Home and Farm iii=iii=iii=iii=iii=iii=iii=iii=iiisiii=iii=iii=iii=m=iiiEiii=m=iiiz 27 STATES Now Hove Sales Taxes -- They Can't AM Be Wrong lll= lll= lll= lll= lll= lll= lll= lll= lll= lll= lll= IIIEIII= lll= lll= lll= lll= lll= Spread the Tax Burden - No Sales Taxes On Groceries (food) (meat) rent, insurance and other items. Everybody pays a little - no burden on anyone .. .. Farm Equipment and Supplies III=III=III=IH=III=III=III=III=III=III=III=III=III=III=III=III=III=III= Vote 300 x "A DOLLAR AIN’T A DOLLAR" September 10, the total price per pound of 31 foods in general use broke all existing records- $7.02. Previously the figure of last March 4, at $6.77 was tops. When OPA was killed, along with pious proclamations that this much lielatHired and abused agency was directly causing “ Inflation", the total price per pound of the Identical foods stood at $4.30. Food that cost $16, when the war began in 1939, cost $24 under OPA; went to $31.30 last Nevember, when the lid was pried off and now crowds a record $34. The dollar lias been cut in value by more than 50%. Really caught in the middle of the whole confusing picture arc retail meat and grocery dealers. Majority of them would wel come price relief quite as much as would their customers. If the bottom should sag a little, overstocked merchants, caught with heavy Inventories, will have losses to absorb which toughen ing buyer resistance will make even more drastic. And it doesn’t help much to realize that a dollar ain’t a dollar any more. PREPARE TOR W I N T E R "F or Fine Floor*" WEST SIDE FLOOR COMPANY L A Y IN G — SA N D IN G — K K F IM K H I.N G 603 N. \\. 22ml Ave., I’orthiml 10, Oregon A. C .RONNING BEacon 2990 —Call— L. C. REYNOLDS Tigard 2177 SPEC IA L ELECTION OCTOBER 7th Washington Co. Sales Tax Comm., Hillsboro t 4Ê t . PICK A TREE IN 2 M IN U T E S ! 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