Show The Tragic Tax Tat We Ve all aU kick over the taxes s saddled saddled sad sad- d- d dIed on us by but but how many protest about taxes we impOse impose impose im im- im- im pose upon ourselves There are any number of these and one of the heaviest is due to the economic economic economic mic cost of the nations nation's automobile automobile automo automo- bile accidents It is the Tragic Tax Investigators say that at least 95 per cent of motor accidents are avoidable They cannot be blamed on the automobile but on the driver They are due to some failure some sin of omission or commission on the part of the man manor manor manor or woman behind the wheel In spite of intensive work by the authorities and safety associations we go on just the same smashing smashing smashing smash smash- ing and crashing killing and maiming flaunting the laws and regulations And we are paying plenty for it According to estimates compiled compiled compiled com com- piled by the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters ers or more persons willbe will willbe willbe be killed this year and more than thana a million injured Statisticians estimate the total economic cost of all this to be between one and a half billion and two and a half billion billion billion bil bil- bil- bil lion dollars when all the items are added Assuming that two billion billion billion bil bil- bil- bil lion dollars approached the correct figure it means a cost of about 1666 for every everyone one of the persons in the United States That is indeed a tragic tax to pay for our ow own own reckless reckless- ness |