Crack Down on Wealthy Tax-Dodgers.

AuthorBlaine, John J.

Taxes are unpopular. That much we all concede. But it will not increase the popularity of taxes to allow those who are best able to pay to escape their just share of the taxes necessary to run the governments thereby increasing taxes of the less favored.

The profiteers and the millionaires escape the income and surtaxes [by submitting] false returns, or by legal devices and tricks of the trade. Is it true that the government is powerless to enforce the law against the rich or is it just the lack of desire [to place] all taxpayers on an equality before the law?

We do not underestimate the influence of the millionaire tax-dodger. We do not fail to understand that he takes the counsel of trained lawyers who are skilled in aiding their clients to cheat the law. We know that their agents sometimes mislead an assessor; that their lobbies put jokers in the laws through pliant legislators [to] bedevil the taxing officers; and that...

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