U. S. TAX PLAN UNFAIR, CLAIM OF GUNDERSON
U. S. Tax Plan Unfair, Claim of Gundersoil Says System Puts Burden On Worker, Con sinner, Farmer America is the only nation In the world which places the entire tax burden upon the workers,...
...has notified H. W. MacKenzle, Wisconsin conservation director, of the Georgia contest...
...to $50,081,000 a year later...
...Green Bay reformatory, the Industrial schools, the deaf and blind schools, the schools for incorrigible children, the state Insane asylums and state commissions and employes...
...Gunderson said...
...We feel that, a two-week study and recreational tour through your statr will bp a worthwhile activity for the four boys winning the contest...
...The Wisconsin home owner, both rural and urban, pays 57 per cent of all the taxes raised in Wisconsin...
...The Wisconsin ratio of benefits to collections for 1939 was 24.4 per cent...
...Gunderson said...
...Declaring that this country grew and prospered in a wide diffusion of ownership of farms and homes, Gunderson said the country must re-establish, preserve and encourage this wide diffusion of private ownership of the home...
...Wisconsin Is Georgia Model ForGameStudy Wisconsin is serving as a model of conservation possibilities, in a contest for 125.000 Georgia boys and girls, with four of the winners promised a two weeks study trip In Wisconsin this summer, according to a letter received by the Wisconsin conservation department...
...In step with general Improvement In employment, the Wisconsin fund in creased at a faster pace in 1939 than in 1938, rising from $37,959,530 on Dec...
...Charles N. Elliott, director of Georgia's wildlife divliilon...
...Many employer organizations maintain, on the other hand, that present brnefits are adequate and that taxes should be reduced to afford a stimulus to business...
...Henry A. Gunderson, Portage, Progressive candidate for governor, declared at a luncheon meeting of Ihe Milwaukee County Real Estate Brokers board last week...
...State Jobless Fund Is Fifth In the Nation WisconsinHas$50,081,-000 Set Aside in Compensation Reserve With $i0,081.000 tucked away in Its unemployment compensation reserve fund, Wisconsin's accumulation is the fifth largest in the nation, according to a survey announced Saturday by Editorial Research Reports, Washington...
...Wc have chosen Wisconsin as the state to visit because of Its outstanding program of conservation...
...In only five states...
...The man who tells you In order to secure your vote that he is going to save $15,000,000 in these expenditures should either have his head examined for sanity or be prosecuted for false representation," Gunderson declared...
...The Progressives contend that taxes should be levied on the basis of ability to pay...
...If this program is carried out then the taxes on the homes In Wisconsin can be reduced more than 50 per cent...
...This 15'j per cent supports the state penitentiary...
...That the old age pensioners should be paid entirely from the liquor, beer and cigaret tax...
...Girls winning In the contest will be given $100 each...
...Four boy winners, together, with vocational teachers and department members, will be given a two-weeks study lour of Wisconsin, starting Aug...
...The conservative theory „is that all the taxes should be raised by a tax upon the homes and by a sales tax...
...U. S. Tax Plan Unfair, Claim of Gundersoil Says System Puts Burden On Worker, Con sinner, Farmer America is the only nation In the world which places the entire tax burden upon the workers, consumers and the farmers and allows the very wealthy to escape taxes entirely by the purchase of tax exempt government bonds...
...That the cost of highways should be born entirely by the users thereof...
...Gunderson said...
...31, 1938...
...This situation has led to demands by labor organizations for liberalization of benefits by shortening the waiting periods before an unemployed person becomes eligible for payments, provision of higher minimum benefits, increasing the maximum number of weeks in which benefits may be paid, and boosting the average amount of benefit checks...
...Idaho, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming, did the outgo amount to as much as four-fifths of the income of unemployment compensation funHs...
...That the schools should be supported entirely from income taxes...
...The state only uses 15'i per cent of the total tax collected in Wisconsin for state purposes...
...To do this we must first reduce the taxes on the homes...
...Some employer groups favor a horizontal tax rut affecting all employers through congressional action, others favor Immediate adoption of merit rating by all states, such as that in effect in Wisconsin, to give preferential rates of tax to concerns which display stable employment records...
...Commenting on the fund accumulations, now at 1'2 billion for the nation, Editorial Research Reports said: "The surpluses piling up in most sti are far In excess of the amounts necessary to insure solvency of the unemployment reserve funds...
...6. Referring to a meeting in Georgia In 1938 addressed by MaeKenzle, Elliott wrote: "That meeting and the interest aroused by it crystallized sentiment in Georgia and gave us an opportunity to reorganize the division of wildlife and form a definite program of conservation...
...Figures compiled by the federal social security board show that with the single exception of Idaho, all states received more in unemployment taxes and interest during 1839 than they paid out to the jobless...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 15
