Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1914 — Limit of Endurance to Tax On Automobiles. [ARTICLE]

Limit of Endurance to Tax On Automobiles.

The with an automobile is getting it coming and going. To begin with he is assessed for taxation based upon tlje value of his machine, which is right. He is then charged a special tax ■and this is right, also. He s then charged a special tax for road upkeep, based upon the horsepower of his machine, which is also fairly just. It looks as though the automobile by this time ought to be about done with taxation and it would be, too, were the revenue sufficient to maintain the government, but the tariffs have been so reduced that the government is compelled to increase Internal revenues'to make up the deficiency and it is suggested that they take another crack at automobiles. The same law will place a tax on gasoline and it begins to look as though the automobile owner would have to carry more than his just share of taxation.