THE KUSKO TIMES
A„X. Grant, Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
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Kusko Times, -McGrath, Alaska.
MCGRATH, ALASKA, MAR 30f 1921
There lias been considerable discus
sion ^relative to the • possibility of:'
changes- in the1- federal income tax
under the Harding Administration.
Among the alterations suggested is
elimination of the surtax, an additional
tax levied on big incomes.
The effect of the tax as now applied
Is illustrated' by the returns for 1917
and 1918. Men with incomes in excess
of1 $250,000 a year were compelled to
pay 50 per cent of the total back to the
Government. Those with incomes of
more than $1,000,000 yearly had to pay
approximately 65 per cent into the fed
®ral treasnry. ;• The tax'-on those with
in Comes of less than $10,000 was under
Spfer cent.
The average tax in 1918 paid by men
of more than a million income was
$1,326,000. The average tax paid by
those with incomes of less than $2,000
was $17.50.
If the taxes are removed in jiart from
the men with big incomes, where will
the revenue be obtained to meet the
deficienev? Hales taxes have -been sug
PROFESSIONAt
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Office: McGrath, Aaa.
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gested, uDder which every man, woman
and child in America will be called
upon to pay the taxes that are now
paid by the-men of hue© incomes!
Under the plan the farmer, the work
ingman, the clerk, the stenographer,
the salesman and the telephone oper
ator would take up the burden that the
men of big means wish to relinquish.
Men of heavy incomes, speculators
and profiteers, have all chafed under j
the taxes levied on them during the;
last few years. Heavy percentages of !
their incomes were drafted for the war, i
and they didn’t like it. They hated :
Wilson because his administration was ;
the first to place much of the cost of
government on them. They want the
everyday workingman to shoulder the
cost, And they will bring, heavy pres-''
sure to bear on the incoming adminis
tration to put it on him.
There is one thing that the man of
big income will always have as com
pensation for such of his money as was
drafted for war service—he didn’t have
to fight or die in the trenches; but was
able to stay at home-and in most cases
to make very large profits out of the
war.—Oregon Journal.
The secret of the famous German
gun that threw shells 15 miles into
Paris has never been made public, and
perhaps was never learned. However,
the French and Belgians are testing a
gun which they expect to throw pro
jectiles 200 miles. It is said that an
entirely new principle is used. The
pressure is kept constant in the barrel,
and even after the projectile has left
the muzzle it increases its speed, per
haps somewhat on the principle of the
rocket. ___
Chicago’s chief of police now refuses
permits for moving pictures showinfi
criminals in action. This order was
made after three boy crooks told the
judge they got their ideas and their!
desire to commit crime from seeing
moving pictures of such things. Crime
pictures must not be shown in Chicago;
even though the criminal is landed in
a prison cell and left there. ^
The supreme court of Vancouver, B.
CM has ruled that an agent eannot col
lect two commissions on the sale of a
mining property. The decision was
rendered in the case of Bush vs. Linde
berg, wherein Bush undertook the sale
of the Forty-nine property near Stew
art on a 10 per cent commission. He
made the sale, but retained a one-six
teenth interest in the property for him
self, which he later sold for #6,000. The
court held that because of his holding
out this interest Bush was entitled to
no commission.
Klondike. Girl Wants Divorce.
Seattle.—Daisy Ebbert, daughter -of
the late Skookum Jim Morris, one of
the discoverers of the Klondikef filed a
suit for divorce today agaiDst Harry
Gordon ■ Ebbert, a former soldier. She
asserts in her complaint that her hue
band evidently thought she was well
to-do when he married her, or believed
that he was marrying? -an heiress, -for
when the anticipated money was net
forthcoming immediately he refused to
support or have anything to do with
her. __
Sleeping Sickness.
New York.—Twenty-six deaths in
125 cases of sleeping sickness- was an
nounced here today by tbe health au
thorities. It is announced that most of
jhese oases-a re-a post-influenza disease, j
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