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1932 › Herbert Hoover (Republican) › Local government consolidation and the tax burden on land
A national review of federal-state-local taxation to relieve farms and homes of property taxes
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Solution
Convene the nation's tax experts after the election and recommend to Congress a readjustment of the tax fields among federal, state and local governments so states can find other revenue and lift the burden on real property.
Rationale
The land tax is 'the most inflexible tax' and now 'almost unbearable'; 'there is no farm relief more needed today than readjustment of land taxes.'
Statements (3)
The time has come for a reconsideration of our tax systems, Federal State and local, with a view to developing a better coordination, reducing duplication and relieving unjust burdens. The Republican Party pledges itself to this end.
The most practicable relief to the farmer today aside from general economic recovery is a definite program of readjustment and coordination of national, State, and local taxation which will relieve real property, especially the farms, from the unfair burdens of taxation which the current readjustment in values have brought about. To that purpose I propose to devote myself.
I announced last April that I would call tax experts of the Nation together to determine the methods we should pursue. I shall do so as soon as the national election is out of the way, and I shall then recommend methods to Congress.
Follow-through
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Hoover lost the election; the pledge could not be tested in office. No national tax-readjustment conference was held; the burden shifted through federal spending rather than tax reallocation.
Other positions on this issue
- Presidential leadership to consolidate local governments and lift the tax burden on land — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 directional_stance
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