A phase of our tax system - the greater the service, the heavier the tax / K.

Illustration shows two men labeled "Charity Worker" addressing an oversized man sitting on a throne, taking money from a box labeled "Rents", into which two men labeled "Rent Collecor" and Agent" pour money, and putting it into a basket labeled "Organized Charity"; in the background are run-down tenement buildings.

Caption: Charitable Workers We thank you for your generous contributions for the relief of the suffering poor, but why don't you replace those rookeries with model tenements and relieve their miseries in that way? / Tenement-House Owner Why? Why because, if I did, the city would fine me with increased valuations and heavier taxes.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 69, no. 1774 (1911 March 1), centerfold.
Copyright 1911 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.