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. EXPOSING TRICK FIGURES
* (Editorial from Macop Evening l\!ews.)
Let’s take this thing apart and see why it doesn't tick.
In the Atlanta Constitution appears the portrait of a large,
pleased gentleman by the name of Bell-—]. Marvin Beli— of
Hall county, ; |
He is pictured with his antomokile license held up before him
and on this are pasted his receipts for property tax, telephone
and electric light service.
The ledgend under the portrait of Mr. Bell is to the effect
that he has saved about $lB because of the economy reforms
instituted by the Governor of Georgia.
So we venture to take it to pieces and see what is on the
inside.
Mr. Bell figures that he saved sll on his automobile tag,
because 'Gene reduced the rate to $3.
The answer to that is familiar, Nobody but the Georgia legi
slature can save Mr. Bell his sll, by ratifying the action taken
by Talmadge, and on the other side of the ledger we know that
Georgia has been denounced all over the country for selling
20,000 tags to non-residents and it has become embarassing
for Georgians to travel in other states.
‘Gene reduced the state property ad valorem tax rate by
one mill, and Mr. Bell figures that this has saved him $5.64.
Let's see about that.
Taking from the latest available figures, we find that Hall
county received from the state treasury in 1932, $63,433 for
schools and $19,470 for roads, or a total of $82,903.
In 1930, the latest vear for which we have the figures, Hall
county paid property tax to the state in the sum of less than
$47,000.
[t follows that Hall county receives from the state treasury
$37,703 more than it pays in staie property taxes—the kind of
tax on which the rate was reduced by one mill.
By reducing the state property tax one-fifth, it is logical to
assume that the state treasury will have one-fifth less revenue
to give Hall and all the other counties of the state, so Hall coun
ty actually lost $16,580 by 'Cene’s reduction of the property
tax rate.
If Mr. Bell has “'saved’” $5.64 on i property tax, then his
total pavment otherwise would have been $27.50. Now, the
ratio of this amount to the total property tax paid by Hall coun
ty to the state (47,000, in round numbers) is a proportion of
about 1 to 1740. Mr, Hall, therefore, may be assumed to re
ceive from the state his proportinate share of the $83,000 (in
round numbers) which Hall county received from the state in
1932,
Mr. Bell's proportionale share of this stale money would be
approximately $47.94. If he had lost twenty per cent of it by
Talmadge's reduction of the state tax rate by one mill, then he
has lost $9.58, instead of saving ss.64.—which more than de
vours the fifty cents telephone “'saving” ——the only item that
can be remotely credited to Talmadge.
There are only ten counties in the state treasury more than
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! they pay into it. & ,
I Mr. Bell insists he is indebted to Talmadge for the fact that
he saves an average of $1.26 on his electric light bill.
The plain tiuth of the maiter is that Talmadge had about as
l much to do with the voluitary veduction of light and power
rates in Georgia as did Will Rogers,
l Anybody who takes the trouble to inquire will find that the
l goveinment operation’ of the Tenessee Valley Authority, pre-
L gent and miospoctive, has sent vates spinning down everywhere
within the ranze of Muscie Shoals.
We iinht cite the case of Tupelo, Miss,, for example. A spe
cimen light bill of a Tupelo citizen was recently shown repro
duced in the nwspapers, that before TVA came along, his bill
was $2.50, and now it is 75 cents, a month.
Why, Mr. Bell doesn't know what it is to have an electric
light bill really reduced these days. He ought to find out how
rates ave tumbling in other states, with the fear on the part of
the power and light company that they will finally be put out
of business by TVA.
Mr. Bell's alleged saving of 50 cents on his telephone bill
is too insignificant to jusiify analysis, but the fact of the matter
seems to be that what he has Idst as a citizen and taxpayer in
a county which gets back from the state more than it pays in
property tax will be many times greater than the fifty cents he
says he saves in his telephone bill.
Mr. Bell is a member of the Democratic executive committee
»f Hall county, and he has figured out that the average Geor
gia taxpayer has saved $37.70 through Talmadge economies.
If he cannot f{igure move aecurately for the average cilizen
than he can in his own case, we must beg to challenge his con
clusions.
There are 149 counties in Georgia which have lost money
through Talmadge's reduction of one mill in the state proper
ty tax rate. Only the big city connties which pay in more than
they get cut of the treasury have profited.
Again it is the big bus and truck companies which have pro
fited by the $3 tag fee, while the saving to the man who owns
a small passenger car—the class of people whose interests are
supposed to be dear to the Talmadge heart—has been relative
ly small. ;
l And yvet Mr. Talmadge, the gbsence of any other opposi
tion at this time, is going up and down the state insisting that
every county shall send to the legislature "‘yes-men who will
rubber stamp his platform.
What his future platform is no pne knows.
What the people of Georgia thought of him and the plat
form on which he nosed iuto office when there were seven can
didates in the field is shown by the fact that 149,928 of these
voted against hiny and enly {l3, 811 voted for him.
He lacked 36,118 of having a inajority of the votes cast in
that election two years ago. In: Bibb county he got 1,075 votes
while the candidates opposed to him got 3.474, Abit Nix alone
more than doubled him, \
Is there any reason to asstuiie i_.l‘;at, the 149,000 Georgians
who voted against him in 13‘3%;?3‘\“0 fallen over tl?g;hseh;es to
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get on his bandwagon, because he effected a saving of $12,000
—according to his own auditor—in administering the affairs
of the state last year?
Have they been won over to him because he claims credit
for those real econoinies effected Ly the legislature?
Have they been won over to him because he threatens to
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There is no reason why the various counties of Georgia
should send to legislature more puppets to carry on the myth
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36,000 of winning a majority of the votes in the last election
why should the people of Georgia permit him to dictate to
them whom they shall send to represent them in the General
Assembly ?
The answer is that they will not.
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