Show unfair burden Writing in the Union Bridge Maryland Pilot WilLiam Wil William I Iliam liam Feather says During a wakeful hour in the night I got an answer to why business has lost so much in public esteem estrem in recent decades The reason is that business has become a gigantic tax collector for the gov goy Business collects the employees employee's in income come tax the social security payment and the gasoline tobacco liquor entertainment sales and all other excise taxes On top of this business collects its own tax by a necessary necessary sary nary levy on consumers What it all aU adds up to is that business takes and Congress gives At least that thatis is the way it seems to most of us Is this good It is not but I can devise no way around it The lawmakers have found a relatively painless painless painless pain pain- less method for collecting tax money They will not alter it Meanwhile business or capitalism if you please takes an undeserved beating Without private enterprise the economy would be s sunk stink yet enterprise is loaded with new expensive and distasteful chores at every meeting of minds minds- in Washington state capitols and city halls |