The Crushing Burden of War Taxes

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 8, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 26.

The Crushing Burden of War Taxes

The weight of war in Japan is sufficiently crushing so that the average Japanese laborer earning the average wage in Japan must work more than one month each year to pay his share of the interest required on the public debt. This burden of war is perhaps worse in Japan than in some other countries, but all of the countries of earth are struggling under the great load of war taxes. Fully three fourths of the income of this nation is required to provide for pensions for old soldiers from past wars and to provide necessary means to build up and equip our navy and take care of the army.