ACTS ILOSOPHY

Speoking of Toxes

Someone, we don't know rvho, has prepared a number of famous remarks on the subject of taxes, beginning four thousand years back. Here they are:

"If I toil it is snatched away flem ms."-Babylonian Proverb, 2200 B.C.

"We are all fleeced."-Luculius,129 B.C.

"In this world nothing is certain but death a1d fa;s5."B. Franklin. 1789.

"The power to tax involves the power to destroy."-Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819.

"The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than a grand opera."-Israel Zangwill, 1908.

"An income tax form is like a laundrv list-either wav you lose your shirt."-Fred Allen, 1945.-

"And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed."

-St. Luke, 2-1.

Excise: "A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid."

-Samuel Johnson,1775.

"The tendency of taxation is to take from those who labor, and give it to those who do n6f l2fe1."-Wm. Corbett, 1811.

"Suppose the citizen is taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability to pay, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it."

-Henry Clay, 1824.

"Taxation policy must aim at the process of accumulating resources by means of direct taxation of property and income."-Eleventh Congress of the Communist Party, 1922.

Truth

trvil is unnatural-goodness is the natural state of man. Earth has no hopeless islands or continents. We live in a redemptive rvorld. Poverty will end, sin will die, love will triumph, and hope will plant flowers on every grave.

David Swing.

A Foirhful Dog

My merry-hearted comrade, in a day, Gave over all his mirth, and went away. Upon the darksome jo,urney I must face Some time as u'ell. Each hour I miss his grace, His meek obedience, and his constancy. Never again will he look up to me, With loyal eyes, nor leap for my caress

As one who lvished not to be master-less. And never shall I hear his pleading bark

Outside the door, when all the ways gro'iv dark, Bidding the housefolk gather close inside. It seems a cruel thing since he has died, To make his mem<lry small, or deem it sin

To reckon such a friend as less,9fr:?"rd Burton.

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