They pay none now.
Is that right, Mr. President?
Why should the poorest mechanic, clerk, storekeeper, printer, farmer, or mine-worker pay excessive federal taxes upon the necessaries of life while the billion dollar corporations pay nothing at all?
The Ship Subsidy
In his message to Congress the President says:
“I especially commend to your immediate attention the encouragement of our merchant marine by appropriate legislation.”
Does Mr. Roosevelt, like the late Senator Hanna, favor the Ship Subsidy? Is the government going to hire merchants to go to sea? Are we to have hothouse commerce sustained at the expense of the taxpayers?
What ails our merchant marine? Why cannot American merchants compete with British and German merchants on the ocean?
Simply because our own laws will not allow it. Our navigation acts have destroyed the American merchant marine.