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...more a Soviet peasant grew the more he had to deliver to the State. Hereafter his quota will be fixed by Feb. 15 each year and will stay fixed, thus encouraging the peasant to grow as large a surplus as possible for his own use and to sell at sky-high open-market prices. Peasants who do not fulfill their quota "will be treated as criminals" according to the decree...
...Mother Hubbard is the Soviet State. In one of her Moscow cupboards she keeps tons of jam (most Russians fancy gooseberry with the seeds left in). Lately this cupboard has been almost bare. Nine greedy Comrades, including the Warehouse Manager, have been stealing jam (especially gooseberry), peddling it for sky-high prices on Moscow's illicit "open markets." Last week they squealed confessions, begged mercy...
Representing all parts of Belgium, this Brussels demonstration was against the proposed tax increase on beer and other drinkables which Belgian legislators want to jack sky-high in the name of Temperance. Demanding "reasonable taxes." the grocers & wineshop-keepers charged that Belgian "bootleggers are making fortunes by selling illicit alcohol while honest shopkeepers pay all the taxes...
...committed is one on beer. Publisher Hearst is Democracy's prime agitator for a General Sales Tax but his own party tore that proposal to bits in the last session. Most Democrats want to see the well-to-do pay higher taxes, but are slowly coming to realize that sky-high rates on luxuries and big incomes fail to produce proportionate revenue in hard times and therefore defeat their own end. Thus the General Sales Tax may become the only practical means of balancing the budget...
...tools of socialization, inheritance and income taxes would be boosted sky-high to break up private fortunes, reduce personal profits, abolish unearned income. Tax-exempt securities would be closed as a refuge for the rich...