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American Agriculturist, March 22, 1924 
Politics and Farm Taxes 
All Getting Relief But the Man on the Land 
N O BETTER authority on the tax 
problem can be found than H. C. 
McKenzie of Walton. New York. For 
some time Mr. McKenzie was tax expert 
of the American Farm Bureau Federation 
and is now doing the same work for the 
New York State Federation of Farm 
Bureaus. In a recent statement to the 
American Agriculturist, he hit this 
great tax curse which is putting such a 
heavy burden on farmers right from the 
shoulder, when he said: 
“Politicians, both Republican and 
Democratic, are taking care of the 
taxes of their friends by reducing the 
income and surtaxes. Now we should in¬ 
quire, what these same politicians are doing 
for the farmers of New York and other States. 
“ The Mellon plan would cut surtaxes 50 per 
cent. A plan to get campaign funds would be 
from those who have very high tariff duties 
protecting their business. If these gentlemen 
could be assured that the flexible provisions 
of the tariff would not go downward in the 
next two or three years, they would be on Easy 
Street. If all the reductions in Federal 
revenue are made in the income taxes, it will 
not be possible to cut anything worth while 
out of the tariff. When the last tariff bill was 
framed in 1922, it was the consensus of opinion 
that not over 350 million dollars ought to be 
taken out of American people through a tariff. 
We arc now taking 570 millions. But this 
extra 200 millions will stay if the reductions 
are all made in income taxes, and those with 
high protection will be sitting pretty. 
“When the last tax bill was framed in 1921, 
the bill which was put into the House provided 
that the tax on freight bills, telegrams and 
telephone messages should be left on and the 
tax taken off chewing gum. The American 
Farm Bureau Federation went before the 
Joint Commission of Agricultural Inquiry and 
protested that the congressmen from the 
Middle West would not dare go home if thev 
left the tax on freight bills and took it off 
chewing gum. The tax was taken off freight 
bills, but left on telegrams and telephone 
messages. It is a well-known fact that the 
gum makers are liberal contributors in the 
campaign fund. 
“This year the proposition is to leave 
the tax on the automobile trucks and 
parts, which are just as much part of 
the freight bill as a freight car, and to 
take it off of the movie tickets. What will 
the movie makers do for their friends? If all 
the men with big incomes had their surtaxes 
cut in two by the Republican organization, if 
those interested in the tariff were assured that 
they would be saved, if the influence of all the 
movie theaters was on the same side, what in 
the world could the Democrats do? 
“In New York State, the proposition is to 
reduce State income taxes by 25 per cent. 
If all these schemes go through for getting 
money by both parties out of the men with high 
surtaxes, the officers of the big insurance 
companies whose salaries range from $25,000! 
to $100,000, the lawyers who get fat fees for 
showing their clients how to avoid the income 
tax, and prize fight promoters made more 
money in one year than any farmer will ever 
see out of agriculture in his whole lifetime, can 
be depended upon, to see that the political, 
pork barrel does not get empty. 
“LAST YEAR THE DIRECT STATE 
PROPERTY TAX WAS RAISED FROM 
$1.2915 TO $2.00 ON EACH THOUSAND 
OF ASSESSED VALUATION IN THE 
STATE. This increased the amount of 
money raised by the direct tax of $19,000,000 
to $33,000,000, and what the politicians 
are handing to the New York State farm¬ 
er is a direct State levy of $33,000,000, 
(<Continued on page 300) 
If you believe in tax reduction sign the petition below, get your neighbor 
to sign it. and send it IMMEDIATELY to American Agriculturist, 
Mil Fourth Avenue, New York City. 
TO THE GOVERNOR, THE LEGISLATURE, AND TO EVERY 
OTHER PUBLIC OFFICIAL IN STATE, COUNTY AND TOWN 
GOVERNMENT IN NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW 
JERSEY. 
WHEREAS, first, taxation has increased in this nation more than four times 
since 1913, and in our State and local governments more than three and a half 
times, and 
WHEREAS, second, this burden of taxation, particularly for State and local 
governments, falls heaviest and directly on farmers and farm property, amounting 
to 16.6% of the farmer’s income in 1922, stopping agricultural prosperity and 
fast becoming absolutely insupportable, and 
WHEREAS, third, the general basis of taxation is INCOME and not PROPERTY 
and 
WHEREAS, fourth, our national, State and local governments have made little 
real progress in cutting out unnecessary officers, government departments and 
appropriation bills since the end of the World War, therefore be it hereby 
RESOLVED: First, that we, the undersigned, are unalterably OPPOSED TO 
THE EXTENSION AT PRESENT OF ALL NATIONAL, STATE AND LOCAL GOV¬ 
ERNMENT ACTIVITIES. 
Second, that all of our national and local officers should give immediate at¬ 
tention to THE GRAVE NECESSITY OF LARGE REDUCTIONS IN ALL GOV¬ 
ERNMENT EXPENDITURES, to the reduction of government personnel, to com¬ 
bining and simplifying government departments and activities, to the need of 
short legislative sessions, to smaller expense accounts for public officials, to 
passing fewer laws, and in short, to the necessity for practicing the same economy 
in public affairs that farmers are constantly obliged to practice in the production 
of the necessities of life. 
Third, that we as farmers are not interested in credit or any other unsound 
farm relief legislation, BUT IN TAX REDUCTION. 
Fourth, that taxation, both State and national, be maintained on all luxuries, 
as for example, chewing gum, tobacco, motion pictures, etc. 
Fifth, that tax reduction be made TO ABOLISH DIRECT PROPERTY TAX. 
A REDUCTION OF INCOME TAXES IS NOT SATISFACTORY. The farmer’s 
income is from his property holdings and therefore his assessed valuation, par¬ 
ticularly on paper, is high. The reduction of income taxes, while government 
expenditures are still so high, will inevitably result in greater taxes on property, 
chiefly FARM REAL ESTATE. Signed eventually by 100,000 farmers. 
Name (write plainly). 
Address.. 
(Paste blank paper to this petition for additional names.) 
