A untroubled by any need to sweat and tremble over income tax re­ turns. Then I got a job. In time this became a part-time affair. The withholding tax rig relieved me of The Time of the Tax has a chance at it. The tax the early March week-end willies, Figuring income tax to the lawyers and the tax mathema­ while adding considerably to my rule book that a generous govern­ ticians of the government get employer's cost of conducting his ment provides is a standard item together and do the job in their business. But I had book royalties and assorted writing jobs. of the professional jokesmiths and jargons, all mixed up. Well, enough about me. I’ll only cartoonists. You know the char­ Week-End Agony add that the more I study the acter. He is up to his ears in This year I started right after rule book on how to make out paperwork, wild-eyed, ready to New Year Day as usual, and, income tax returns the more I murder anybody who is handy. also as usual, here I am still at become confused. The cartoonists do not exag­ it when the March 15 deadline Bunkhouse Economics gerate so very much. This is why is under my nose. I have book We live on things we get from a huge share of the income tax royalties and other pay from others, which they have produced. payers are willing to pay still several sources for my products We have to produce and distribute more to “experts" to avoid the of the writer’s art. There is a in turn, to get the things. The income tax tensions which ar6 part-time job and its withholding vast majority of us produce and signposts that read, “This way tax. Put them altogether and d'stribute, in turn, to get things. madness lies." they all spell mother—no, wait The vast majority of us produce So far I’ve balked at the extra a minute—-I mean T-R-O-U-B-L-E and distribute, with money the tax of the expert. If the rule in the dawn of spring. A week­ measure of the trade in products. book were written in plain terms end is ruined. And for months Government rules all. Government does not produce of common sense the expert would I dream of federal jail. be needed by very few. But it is “—a penalty of two years in anything. Government, takes only not. No professional writer ever prison and a $10,000 fine.” And through its power to tax. The I can go out in my car and kill more we produce the more the a couple of people and get off government takes in taxes. The with a sentence of two months more money government spends and a $100 fine, perhaps less, and the more must take in taxes for Clarence R. Wagner the purpose, because government have the sentence suspended. Columbia County Ambition got me into this fix. cannot pay its own way in ex­ In the early days of the income change of* products. It has no SURVEYOR tax, I was working On a green products. It does not produce. Production requires police pro­ Then the Registered Professional Engineer chain and exempt. Surveys, Maps and Estimates Oregon income tax took me in, tection, it needs such laws as All Surveys Recorded but it was childishly simple back those of contract for its opera­ Office in Court House Basement in 1923. As a toiler in the literary tions. In such things government vineyard who for 15 years had no gives service. This country’s eco­ Phone 698 urge and made no effort to be­ nomy grew under simple govern­ come a big income man I was ment service to productive people. Then the federal government began its movement to take charge of everything. This was under Theodore Roosevelt. By 1918 fed­ eral government had come to the point of bossing our drinking Open week days until 6 p.m. habits in the home. By 1948 it was into everything imaginable, and to find new fields to boss the federal RICHMOND DOUBLE GUARANTEED TIRES government moved to wrest power from the states. 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