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state is larger than their relative share in
commerce and the rapid growths of the
the taxes levied on farmers.
= (Mrs. Margaret McL. Cottle)
A Column For Farmers
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The tax burden on farmers has assum-
ed such proportions in recent years that
today it is one of the major economic
problems in the rural sections.
That's a bad way to start a column.
Only the other day we asked a man if
he'd read an editorial in The Post about
the difficulty of collecting taxes in local
townships. “No,” he admitted, “T've seen
so much about taxes I never read any-
thing about them any more.” So we've
probably shooed away most potential read-
Anybody that
wants to ride along the rest of the way
is welcome. This is about ‘farm taxes,
tage of local taxes goes to maintain the
schools. That means that farmers are
paying ‘sizable chunks of money each
year to maintain schools which, according
to authoritative surveys, devote from one-
third to one-half of their time training fu-
jture citizens for cities and towns.
Obviously we cannot expect such cities
and towns to finance rural school systems.
But we can demand that the State assume
greater responsibility in helping the rural
school districts, thereby lifting some of
the burden on farm real estate.
ply,
There are three primary steps to be
taken in relieving the farm of its unjust
burden of taxes, and farmers should know
what they are so they can be prepared
to advocate and support legislation which
benefits them.
There should be (1) A shifting of
more of the costs of schools and of town-
Hater or anh : | ship roads from rural real estate to the
There is no other problem confronting
the farmer for which legislation is so es
sential in its solution and for which the
farmer has more reason to expect govern-
mental action.
That the tax burden on farmers in this
the income in the state is an established
fact. This isn’t due particularly to any
sinister design on the part of legislators.
It is caused by the slowness in adjusting
the system of taxation to changing econo-
mic conditions. A
At one time tangible property was the
source of nearly all governmental reve
nues. In the evolution of industry and
corporate form of ownership of business,
many other sources of income have deve
loped so that today ownership of tangible
property is a very inadequate measure of
a man’s income. Income, not property,
should be the basis of tax assessment to-
day. But real estate is still compelled to
carry a major part of the taxation bur-
den.
There are a number of inequalities In
For example
almost the entire local tax burden now
other sources of income; (2) better ass-
essments, in order that the burden on lo-
cal property may be more equally dis
tributed, and (3) greater economy in the
expenditure of the money.
If farmers work together for the ac-
complishments of these three objectives
they can look forward to the day when
their bank accounts will be larger and
their tax bill smaller.
Employment for thousands of Pennsyl-
vanians and new markéts at good prices
for Keystone State farm products have
nicely fit into conditions about Dallas.
The last three years have witnessed
try in Pennsylvania. Last year three big
cannery companies established plants in
the state, other canneries increased their
production and a number of small plants
were opened.
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One of the nation’s largest food pro-
cessors has just purchased an $800,000
factory building in Milton. This new
cannery will open with 200 employes and
is contracting with farmers for the pro-
duction of 1,000 acres of peas, beans, to-
matoes and other vegetables.
In 1935 seventeen new canneries open-
ed in Pennsylvania, giving employment to
1,361 wage earners who were paid $255,
500 that year.
Co-operation given the canneries by the
State Department of Agriculture through
its division of fruit and vegetable inspec:
tion and the high quality of Pennsylvania
farm products have combined to attract
new canneries to this state, according to
J. Hansel French, Secretary of Agricul
ture.
Secretary French has encouraged this
growing Pennsylvania industry by increas-
ing the personnel of the division of fruit
and vegetable inspection 50 per cent, by
establishing official grades for peas, by
extending State inspection to peas and
rests on real estate. The greatest percen- [been created during the last three years corn and by co
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nducting twenty regional [000 pounds. ~~ GEER
through expansion of the State's canning schools for State inspectors and preparing | State inspection makes it possible for
industry, an industry which would very for licensure 200 young men of the 1,000 |the canneries to buy graded products from
.who attended the schools.
| Last year State inspectors tested 160, | ies availing themselves of
tremendous growth of the canning indus: (000,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables have captured the cream of the market
lfor canning. In spite of the seriows han- land were able to pay farmers high prices
dicap of a wet canning season the 1937
volume exceeded that of 1936 by 25,000,
the farmer at premium prices.
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