Word: taxed
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...reducing the excessive number of saloons and other drinking places: Evening Post, March 31, '96.- (a) It will reduce saloons in the large cities 30 to 50 per cent.- (b) It will eliminate nearly all the objectionable small saloons and dives.- (1) They cannot afford to pay the high tax.- (c) It will reduce the number of other drinking places.- (1) Hotels and restaurants selling liquor pay the same tax as saloons.- (d) It provides for local option in towns, but not in cities...
...maintenance of criminals in penitentiaries, etc.- (c) It thus greatly relieves the taxpayers of the state at large.- (d) The objection that it does so at the expense of the cities, is untrue.- (1) Compensation will be made to the cities by the great increase of the saloon tax.- (2) The total amount of city taxation will be lessened.- (x) New York city now pays 46 per cent. of the state direct taxes.- (y) Its share of the payment of the liquor tax will be much less: Seth Low in Evening Post, April...
...will be beneficial, because its heavy penalties for violation are certain to be enforced.- (a) It renders enforcement easy.- (1) By enabling individual complainants to challenge certificates and carry their cases to court.- (2) By providing for the constant and prominent display of the tax certificate.- (3) By throwing saloon interiors plainly open to inspection during hours when sale is forbidden.- (b) It renders non-enforcement most dangerous.- (1) Remissness officially is severely punishable.- (c) It removes motives for nonenforcement.- (1) State-appointed officials cannot be bribed or intimidated by local liquor interests.- (d) It was rigidly enforced last Sunday...
...license will not increase cost of drinks.- (2) It only drives out small dealers and concentrates trade with larger ones.- (b) It grants local option to country towns, but not to New York City, Albany, etc.- (1) Small towns will reap the benefit of a part of the total tax...
...contains many injustices-(a) 33 1/3per cent of the tax goes to the use of the State and not to the local municipalities.- (b) Certain parts of the State must pay higher licenses than others.- (x) New York, Kings, Erie and Munroe Counties pay higher taxes than St. Lawrence, Clinton, Chautauqua and Cattarugus Counties.- (c) Certain countries are deprived of the right of local self-government.- (d) It is not the part of the State to coerce the individual.- (e) This bill does not allow the people to vote on Sunday license.- (x) It closes the saloons on Sunday...