Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — RAISE OF OVER 50% IN TAXES [ARTICLE]

RAISE OF OVER 50% IN TAXES

For This Year Greater Than What You Paid for 1919. Jasper county taxpayers who gasped over paying taxes this year (for the 1919 levy) will faint dead away when they come to paying their spring installment of 1920 taxes, payable on or before the first Monday in May, 1920, as the average raise in levy is about 60 per cent over the total levy for last year, the last installment of which must be paid on or before Monday, Nov. 1. In other words, where you paid $1 this year you will have to pay about $1.60 next year, on an averiage. In some of the corporations I the increased levy is less than 60 cents and in some tt is more, the average increase for 1920 for the entire county being about 60 per cent. The following table gives the total rate in each corporation in the county for both 1919 (the last installment of which is now due) and 1920, the first installment of which is known as the spring installment and must be paid on or before Monday, May 4: CORPORATIONS. 1919 1920 Corporations. 1919 1920 Barkley , ? 94 $1.26 Carpenter —- -73 -97 Tjillam - 99 1-73 Hanging Grove 92 1.46 Jordan 99 1.12 Kankakee —— 1-50 1-83 Keener - 1-53 1.58 Marion l-°0 12 9 Milroy 60 1.21 Newton - l- 03 4.67 Union - 1-43 1-78 Walker 1-19 l- 54 Wheatfield 1-49 1-77 Wheatfield (town) ........ 2.18 3.07 Remington 1.71 2.22 Rensselaer - 1-99 2.20 This tremendous increase in levy comes on top of a big boost in the personal the real estate assessment not having been changed over 1919, of course. Study these rates over, and if you know what your real and personal assessment is you can figure out to a cent the amount of money you will have to dig up ne*t year to pay taxes under the beneflcient Goodricli' tax law, which is endorsed by the Republican nominee for governor,. Warren T. McCray, and which will remain on the * statute books in the event of McCray's election and the election of a Republican legislature;- as he has publicly endorsed this law in his campaign throughout th&vState. The Democrats are pledged in their state platform to repeal this law and enact ip its stead an equitable tax law which will, meet the requiremehts and will not prove burdensome to the taxpayers. It is up to the people to decide Nov. 2 whether they want a continuance of Goodrichism with its? continuous increase ( in tax burdens or the rdlief which will be granted by electing a Democrat governor "aftd a Democratic legislature.