Carson City Gazette
Carson City, MI, Thursday, October 23, 1944
Carson City Post No. 380 of the American Legion at the meeting on Monday evening, October 23rd, formulated a plan for legislation that will be of benefit and aid to every veteran of World War II.
A resolution was adopted by the local post asking that the National organization of the American Legion have introduced into the forthcoming session of Congress such legislation as would grant to every World War II veteran, after their discharge from military service, a personal income tax exemption of the first $1500 of their yearly income for a period of time equal to their period of service providing the fractional part of a year of six months or more of service shall be accepted as a full year for income tax purposes.
Many men and women now in the service sacrificed their homes, personal belongings, and business interests at the time they put on their uniforms, and they hope and expect to re-establish themselves in homes and in business immediately upon their return to civilian life.
It is with the thought of assistance and aid to them at the time when it is most needed that the local post is making this suggestion to its National organization with a request for immediate endorsement and early action in preparing the legislation.
