Show Taxes For Everybody A noted t aske recently what was the best laugh topic re- re replied re replied plied pHed Taxes Everybody pays them 4 But while we laugh the cost of national government national state stale and local climbs climbs and climbs And John Citizen pays dearly for his laughs Today there is an invisible guest who sits at the table of every family in this country lie He is the invisible tax eater cater that eaT eaT- collects col collects the hidden taxes When the housewife purchases three pork chops the butcher weighs them I out but only wraps up one The third he gives to this invisible guest This steady sapping of the na- na nation nation na nation tion income to meet public c expenses pen pen- ses was cited by l Lewis lwis wis II H Brown president of the be J Johns 1 Johns Corporation in a recent address to the American Bankers Association It it useless to attempt to solve 1 this problem in terms of parties Mr Brown said for no matter what the lebe the tho costs of gov government gOV 1 gov- gov government apparently continue to mount and md taxes are arc further in increased in- in increased increased creased The only possible solution it seems to me lies in the education education education tion of ot the individual citizen in the I fundamental fact that all an the pea peo- peo people Pie support the government and that the government go cannot sup sup- support support sup support port all aU the people Somehow we must make every last man and woman and child rca rea lize that no matter whether taxes are aid directly or not no citizen can escape paying his share of the cost of government that comes through the hidden taxes that are arc buried in every single purchase that he makes wih his hard earned hard dollar Here is I a n task for everyone eve one Mr Brown points out adding Everyone agrees that the cost of government must be reduced and that taxes should be cut Here at last lait is ic one subject which an all cItizens can enn agree irrespective of nationality or of color or of reli- reli reli religion don gion cion or politics Some people think that nil all we 70 need Is a new mayor or a new gov- gov governor governor gov governor or a n new congress But what we really need is i an aroused pub pub- pub public lie lic opinion demanding that the theco coat t of government must roust be re- re reduced reduced re reduced |