Show lower taxes for the motorist highway groups of the nation have stared a drive t to 0 remove high taxation against the motorist it 11 i pointed out that to own and op crate erate a new car one year the average worker making 48 a week must work two and a half weeks just to pay the taxes on the ve hide hicle before the war 70 per cent of the nation s passenger cars were owned by families earning less than 2000 a year taxes levied a users in 1946 brought in more than one fourth of the rev denue raised by states that year sales taxes amounted to only 18 44 per cent and income taxes to 17 2 per cent the state auto levy was in addition to federal excise taxes local taxes and indirect ind erect taxes |