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Show Average Family Taxed $36 In Proposed Revenue Bill Ililiyrllll:: iSC' j-,fiv SifSll Pfk, COSMETICS TELEPHONE AUD yiiilillif ipiipipl , . TELEGRAPH v f ' W0m$Wm& V) Xl J i rh YEAg f TlPfS TURK ACCGSSOeiK wort, malt syrup, etc TOTAL REVENUE EXPECTED $8.oo-AvsAg 669,500,000 Housewife's Beauty, Jewelry May Cost More. If congress passes the proposed excise and special taxes already approved for the general revenue bill, it's going to cost you, if you are anywhere near the average, somewhere between $10 and $100 in additional taxes next year. Let's presume that you are married, mar-ried, own an automobile, Have a pretty wife who likes to use all the powders and creams that other wives use, and that you earn '$40 per week. Here are the new taxes you may pay: Cosmetics $4.25 Jewelry 4.35 Tires, tubes, oil, aoces- ories 7-01 Amusements 2.00 Soft Drinks 2.50 Matches 20 Telephone and telegraph. 1.80 Wort, malt syrup and 1 grape concentrates 1.80 Candy 2.50 Sporting goods 3.50 Total for year $36.00 You might think the cosmetics figure is high, but if your wife spends as much as the average$20-a-week Stenographer for such purposes, pur-poses, she spends $42.50 a year on lipsticks, rouge, cleansing cream, tissue oream, (skin food, astringents, astrin-gents, and so forth. The new tax is 10 per c-nt and that figures out annually at $4.25, Average Figure Taken The figure for jewelry is based on a survey made in New York, which showed that the average expenditure ex-penditure for women in moderate circumstances was just $42.50 a year. And if you are one of the millions mil-lions of home-brewers, your tax, of course, will depend upon how much brew you make. Eight dollars dol-lars per year is about the tax on the malt, wort and grape concentrates concen-trates the average "wet" family buys. If you give your wife a $2 box of candy once a month, with a little extra for the Christmas box, your Editor's Note: The tax bill as finally passed 'by the senate provided for a total of $1,116,000,000 revenue which includes taxes on income, gasoline and electricity. tax will be $2.50 per year. As for sporting goods, let's presume pre-sume that you are a once-a-week golfer, who shoots just over 100. You buy two clubs during the year at $5 tech, paying 50 cents tax each time. You lose on the average one 50-cent ball for each round, paying five cents tax on each. Also 'Phone Tax The telephone tax is equally simple. Let's presume that your wife's mother lives in a distant town. She calls once a month, the regular charge being $1.25. Add 15 cents tax for each of the 12 call?. That's $1.80 a year. Of course, if you chance to huy an electric refrigerator for $200, $10 more will be added to your tax buidens. And if you own a mall motor boat, another $10 or more must be paid. But, generally speaking, $36 will be your share of the $69,500,000 tax increase tentatively approved by Congress. This huge sum includes more than $200,000,000 to be. raised by increases in income tax, which will net affect you if you make $40 per week. |