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
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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
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Two Yeara ......................
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for the future.
not blame the farmers.
Three Yeara
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3.00 MEMBER
Oregon Newspaper Publisher s ’ They also tell me that altho
6 Months ......................
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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
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W
ORKERS!!
BEAVERTON,
:
:
Reduce Your State Income
T A X E S-
'PEOPLE MUST BE HEARD'
Reduce Taxes On Y our
Home and Farm
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27 STATES
Now Hove Sales Taxes --
They Can't AM Be Wrong
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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
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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.
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TOR
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SPEC IA L ELECTION OCTOBER 7th
Washington Co. Sales Tax Comm., Hillsboro
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