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Who Pays the Taxes
From the Amerkhts Timcs-Recorder.
Th M’e are approximsiltiy 600,000 taxpayers in the state. At
election time the polit’ nan tells tin fanne rs they are paving the
tax. Later he says to the voters in the cities that they pay the
taxi s
Georgia’s tax muddle will, never be settled until we know who
pay the taxes, and where the money goes after it is paid in the
state treasury.
A satisfactory tax law will never be written in the turmoil,
bickering and trading of a session of the legislature, with each of
the members introducing his own pet theories lobbying, trading
and fil bustering in an attempt to put his measure across.
The income of the state of Georgia for 1922, according to
Comptroller General Wright’s report, shows the larger taxpaying
groups to be as follows:
City and town real estate $1,840,000
Automobile tags 1,831,000
Farms 1.520.0C0
Gasoline (lc a gallon) 739,000
Oil inspectors’ fees 640,000
Insurance companies 592,000
Rental W. & A. R. R. 540.000
Railroad tax 519,000
Poll tax , 344,000
Cotton and other factories 330,000
Merchandise 305,000
Money and insolvent debts 293,000
Inheritance taxes 283,000
Occupation tax (capital) 242,000
Shares in banks 217,000
Household furniture 182,000
Autos and bicycles (ad valorem) 100,000
Fertilizer fees 165,000
Horses and mule! 120,000
Cigarett dealers 108,000
Street railways 99,000
Professional taxes 94,000
Corporation (ad valorem) 84,000
Farm tools and other machinery 60,000
Insurance fees 57,000
Telephone companies 54,000
Cattle 45,000
Pure food fees 44,000
Back taxes 38,000
Insolvent general tax 38,000
Billi trds and pool 35,000
Stocks and bonds 32,000
Insurance agents 30,000
Automobile agents 29,000
Carbonic acid gas 26,000
Interest from depositories 22,000
Wild lands tax . 20,000
Rentals of public property 19,000
Public service commission 16,500
Steamboat companies 16,000
Telegraph coniDanies 16,000
Cotton and other crops ' 15,000
Hogs , .13,000
Barber shops 13,000
Pistols and cartridges 12,000
Watches, Jewelry, silver plate 10,000
Pawnbrokers 9,800
Soft dii ink manufacturers 9 ; 300
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Mineral and timber lands .. 8,500
Moving picture shows 7,500
Peddlers 7,500
Show taxes 6,300
Sleeping car companies 6,100
Cars for hire 5,800
Hotels 5,7G0
Garages 5,700
Soda founts 5,300
All other sources 187,900
Total “$12,122,000
The farmers are carrying the load of county taxes, but from
the above figures it appears that he is not carrying the state tax
load. Since city and town property is paying more taxes than
country property, it would seem to us that a repeal of the tax
equalization law would benefit the cities more than the country.
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HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. SScBONOUGH GEORGIA.
Trio Of Nationally I nown Men
l Analyze Evils Of Coal Industry;
Stress Need For Stable Labor
COL. GUY D, GOFF
Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president
emeritus of Harvard; Colonel
Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary
of War, and Colonel Guy D. Goff,
former Assistant Attorney General
of the United States, are among the
men to whom the National Coal As
sociation, in an aggressive move
ment to stabilize the bituminous
coal industry and increase its value
to the public, has applied for advice.
Dr. Eliot in a comprehensive let
ter addressed to the organization’s
annual convention at Atlantic City,
stressed the importance of arbitra
tion of disputes by non-partisan
agencies, a tenet to which operators
claim they have long held. Dr.
Eliot advocated the incorporation of
all unions that relate to the coal
industry.
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“In the public interest,” he wrote,
“it is inexpedient that these secret
societies, which collect large sums
of money from their members, and
use all their resources to support
strikes, however violent, should con
tinue to he exempt from the usual
legal processes to prevent violations
of contract and enforce payment of
damages.”
Colonel Stimson stressed the need
of constructive leadership and uni
fied front in self organization and
self discipline in the public’s in
terest.
Colonel Goff emphasized the im
portance of basic considerations in
the coal labor problem to the whole
problem of American social and eco
nomic development. An attempt is
being made, he declared, to change
DR. CHARLES W. ELIOT
the form of American trade unions
into industrial unions as an opening
wedge toward compelling the ma
jority in America, or a militant and
effective minority, to accept thf
doctrine of communism.
Investigations conducted _by th<
Bituminous Operators’ Special Com
mittee, appointed to cooperate with
the United States Coal Commission,
have found that labor is one of the
principal factors of the cost oi
coal at the mine, amounting to 68.7
per cent of the total. The constant
interruption of the coal supply by
nation-wide strikes, made possible
by a growing monopolistic power on
the part of the United Mine Work
ers of America, is given as the chief
deterrent to a regular supply of coal
at satisfactory prices.