Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1916 — TAX PAID RELIEVES PEOPLE [ARTICLE]

TAX PAID RELIEVES PEOPLE

Berksdale Township In Wisconsin Will Have More Money Than Ever to Spend Washburn, Wis. —Because of taxes paid in by the Du Pont Powder Works, rhe people of Berksdale township will have' no taxes to pay the coming year, and will harve something like SIIB,OOO to spend. For a score of years the town has snuggled close to the railroad tracks, unkempt and pctor. The population of the township in 1910 was 303. The inhabitants were farmers, lumber jacks, hunters and trappers. Today the population is about 500. The town cast 98 votes* at a recent election. . The Du Pont Powder Co. built a big plant in the northeast corner of the township. Not a soul stays at the powder plant at night, unless it be the big private police force. All the munition workers live_in the town of W ashburn just north of the township line. The Wisconsin income tax law provides .that corporations must pay a percentage' of net earnings to the township wherein the industry is located. The township has maintained itself and kept up its roads on an annual Income of about SBOOO. Heretofore it has raised, enough to be able to spend $22.09 per capita pn its schools and roads and other needed things including salaries of officials. It will have $162.?5 per capita to spend and there will be no taxes.