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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1924)
* A Many Opportunities Here VERNONIA EAGLE M th St ti s< -^WOULD e t< L we stand for a law that J < kept 3000 families out of Oregon? < 4 4 « Of course we wouldn’t! So it’s up to us to vote the antagonistic Income Tax Law out of existence! For it has already lost for Oregon payrolls amount' ing to more than six million dollars ($6,000,000) a year! And six million dollars means at least 3000 families who are lost to Oregon’s popula tion in just one year under this dangerous law. 59 Industries lost to Oregon in a single year—others threatened These figures show the appalling effect of this unwise tax law which antagonizes industries on which a large part of our growth and prosperity depend. Recorded Damage Due to State Income Tax 8 11 Oregon needs Jobs and Markets The Income Tax kills both! Vote 312X YES and kill the Income Tax! » If there are two things Oregon needs above all others it is (1 ) jobs for her workers, and (2) markets for her products. Every new enterprise or in dustry brought into Oregon means more jobs. Jobs support population. Ev ery increase in population means a better market for farm and factory products. Yet the income tax law antagonizes industries and enterprises. Many au thentic cases are on file where industries MOVED OUT OF OREGON OR DECIDED NOT TO COME TO OREGON because of the income tax law. f. Counting loss of capital invested, purchases and payroll, this loss is already conservatively estimated at more than $40,000,000. The payroll loss alone is already over $6,000,000 a year I 12 8 1« 22 Timber purchases cancelled or sits- pended .............................................. SU 000 OM Cam : .mon oi lumber rr.lla. towns, logg.r ramp, and logging railways aba»*or.ed or suspended..................... 7.875 ooe Other industrial investment* can- 4.$78,000 ceiled or suspended............................. One yeai's operating payroll on faregoing item« .. ........................... DismsorporatK ns. te.6M.3OO capi- ita!. Damage listed 1/10 only Actual remos lis from the state, in- clud.ag loss oi only one year's pay 2 440,258 roll .......................................................... Threatened removaia, including lose of only one year’s payroll................... 2.218. $00 11 >4 21 Cases as to which definite amount» are not available, but which would amount to many millions; damage listed aa ............................................... Caere atiD under investigation | would amount to many million»j damage listed aa................................. Cases in which reported removal or investment elsewhere was stated to have been caused by the income tax but which cannot be verified in writing ; damage listed ae ............... ÏSlirrr. $41,252,350 Thear figlire« certiûed coewervetivc and correct bv: FRANK E. ANDREWS, CHARLES H. STEWART. BEN SELLING, CHRISS A. BELL, J. K- GILL. The customer who quits and says nothing — The insidious thing about this law is that industries do not complain—they simply pack up and move to another state I They are like the customer who quits and says nothing—you never know he is dissatisfied nor why — hence have no chance to make matters right with him. Many large concerns who left or stayed out of Ore gon on account of the income tax refused to allow us to use their names because they did not want to be made to appear as tax dodgers—and yet they could not af ford to carry a tax burden in Oregon which they did not n--ed ta pay in California or Washington! There is an old adage which says, "Business is sensitive. It goes only where it is invited and stays only where it is well treated.” We cannot afford to AN TAGONIZE enterprises which other states are INVITING I This insidious law must go It is hurting Oregon! Read these extracts from letters. The originals and hundreds more like them are on file. Then go to the polk November 4th and rid Oregon of this objectionable law which is keeping millions or dollars and thousands of people away from our state. • • • we cannot permit ourselves to be burdened with »7 taxes that our competitor., the majority oi whom a-e in Wethington, do not have to pay. For that rmoc we figure that if the income tax it to be pera.anent, we, in self press rvatioc. must «nth- draw r r headquarters to another state. M fl M WOODWORKING CO.. Portland, Oregon. We had acquired property for th. erection sf a warehouse when we learned oi thia law. I have heretofore advmed on similar rnuwn that we cannot maintain our business is Oregon if the statuts is upheld. TRUSCON STEEL COMPANY, Youngstown, Ohio. W. F. Guthrie, V. P. Will limit expansion to moot absolute necessities re compute present functions, a reduction of 65% in program. On account of the severity and injustice of •he Oregon income tax lew we heve decided to cut down our pt open I building and equipment project from S3VOC0 to 112,000, and had we realised that thia tax would become effective, we would not have b^dge-ed any additional improvement at ■ Oregon. WESTERN LUMBER MFC. CO, San Francisco. Unica the lew ie repealed we era earioualy con sidering incorporating our Seattle house capar airly and diverting also to them all Oregon butinera that it in pomi bl < for them to handle. CLYDE EQUIPMENT CO.. Portland. Oregon. WiB reduce our Of -rettone in Oregon end poeesHy ■> to Vancouver, W, rung tom. COAST CULVEX. APLUME CO.. Portland. Ora. Our company will not eapand la Portland ee lane at there is a State Income Taa La*. The principal reaeon our head office wan not located in Portland wea on this account. BUNGE WESTERN ORA1N CORPORATION. Portland. Oregon. Mr. Herbert Armstrong, Western Msnager tor the Menasha Woodenware company, stated that they war, ficurine on moving the Western Woodenware Com ps-.» from Tacoma to Cooa Bay, and had already pur- ch used site on our waterfront Later stated they would not do anything at all toward a change until they had seen the effect of the Oregon State Income Taa La*. H. a. KERN, Preaident. Pirat National Bank, North Band. Oregon. Our original plana of operations in Oregon called for aa annual production of 200 million feet of lum ber, whereas our present plan, call for only 20‘S, of that amount Furthermore, we had planned on con structing and operating a large Door and Saab Factory in connection with our lumbering plant, but with this threatening legislation there m no rncourager-ient for us to invest the necessary capital for carrying out our original plans. We hope that the majority of the people in Oregon wiU ultimately change their present attitude rewards capital and industry, to the end that It will bo a wel come visitor in every section of the stats. MOUNT EMILY TIMBER CO.. La Oread«, Ora. • • • w» contemplated patting in an electric steel fernace. but will not do thte until the lew hat been chaa<«L BEND IRON WOrtKI. trio 1 1 tllS tax law has alreaay lost for Oregon more than 40 million dollars just for the purpose of soaking our enterprises 2 or 3 millions a year. Is that good business or good sense? The situation is critical. It must be met by intelligent voting. If we want Oregon to grow we must vote to. 'T’L * < KILL THE STATE INCOME TAX Vote 312 X Yes L I J? V