Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1920 — STATE TAX LEVY ALSO RAISED [ARTICLE]

STATE TAX LEVY ALSO RAISED

Which With Higher Valuation* Will Be Felt Next Year. The state board ot tax commissioners have fixed the tax levy for 1920 at 22 cents on each $l6O valuation. which is 4 cehts higher than last year. With the increases in levy all along the line —county, city, town and township—and the higher valuations of this year, when the assessors were instructed to list the bed you sleep in, with the number of sheets, pillows, et cetera; the knives, forks and spoons as separate items, the taxes people will have to pay next year (this year's taxes) will be something that the will not soon forget The taxpayers —some of them who are not too partisanally hide-bound —'Will no doubt recall the pre-election campaign of four years ago, when the Republicans said they would lower the taxes if they would only elect James P. Goodrich et al to office. They promised the taxpayer bread, but gave him a stone instead.