Tax-Balanced Budget Seems Remote
By Byron Price
([Chief Bureau, Associated Press,
Washington, D. C.)
The current tax discus
sion in congress demonstrat
es pointedly how major pol
itical issues often become
hopelessly confused and be
clouded.
It is agreed universally
that the government is fac
ing a time of critical deci
sion with respect to financ
es. The budget has been out
of balance for five years,
and there is widespread
questioning about the en
tire problem of national fis
cal policy..
As a matter of common
sense, it would seem that
in such times the voters
should be given an oppor
tunity, under a democratic
form of government, to ex
press themselves clearly &
directly.
ineoretically, it would
appear a simple matter to
put into the coming cam
paign an issue stated thus:
should taxes now be in
creased to equal expendi
tures, and if so who should
bear the burden?
Actually, national deci
sions seldom work out that
way. Not only will any ex
pression on this subject be
complicated by a tangle
with other issues, but the
tax issues itself has become
so complicated that it is
hard for anyone to under
stand it without the aid of
a textbook on public finan
ceand a table of logarithms.
An Evasive Topic
In the first place, there is
no prospect that either of
the major parties will say
directly in its platform that
it favors an immediate bal
ancing of the budget by in
creasing taxation.
If the precedents of for
mer years are followed, the
voter who wants a balance
struck at once will have no
chance to vote his convic
tions. He will have to
choose instead between 2
party planks of beautifully
indefinite language, mean
ing one thing to one person
and another thing to an< th
er.
As to the methods to be
pursued in any tax increase
the likelihood of vague par
ty declarations is even
greater. The membership of
both parties is split widely.
Whatever bill is enacted
will be, inevitably, a patch
work of compromises; and
it will be the job of the re
spective platform commit
tees at the conventions to
please as many different
schools of thought as poss
ible.
The usual result of that
process is to leave the sub
ject in a complete fog, from
which it can be rescued on
ly if one or the other of the
principal candidates for
president brings forward a
clearly-defined program of
his own.
But even about this, there
are many complications.
Roosevelt Theory Attacked
Mr. Roosevelt, for instan
ce. already is on record for
an increased tax on corpora
tion incomes.
His proposal immediate
ly is attacked on the one
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rich and on the other as
a disguised thrust at “the
little fellow” who, it is arg
ued by some of Mr. Roose
velt’s opposition, would
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ually.
On top of this, congress
has re-written the Roose
velt program, bringing in
to play a sliding scale of
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Russian VUi^azine Described Processes
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Revised Supreme Law Will
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Soviet Citizens
(By The Associated Press)
Moscow, April 30,—That
the Soviet state must, for
the time being, carry on
with certain traditions in
herited from the burgoisie
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ment of Soviet Russia, pub
lished Sunday.
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printed in a magazine
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ficial organ of the govern
ment.
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new constitution under
study will grant the right of
equal vote of all Soviet cit
izens except those disen
franchised by the courts.
The class and origin of the
citizen is not to be consider
ed.
Voting will be secret and
direct, and, according to
Joseph Stalin, Soviet lead
er. as quoted in the maga
zine, will serve as a “whip
in the hands of the people
against the badly working
organs of the state.”
The magazine explained
further that “our system
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ousting of bureaucratic and
other unworthies by the el
ection of the best individ
uals to Office.”
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ihe bill really means, es
pecially as its pract nil op
eration will be delayed un
ill next year?
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issue’s principal < ntribu
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