Show KILLING HILLING TIlE THE GOOSE T The e oil pIl industry and the motorist have one great problem in common common- the the steadily increasing gas tax with the tendency toward using the funds for general purposes According to Victor Scales of thew the w American Petroleum Institute gasoline t taxes cost motorists in 1930 more than all expenditures 1 forthe for the tIle United States Slates arm army The total paid almost equals the combined budgets of two t yo of our greatest states Illinois states Illinois I and and New York It was waR greater than the net liet r revenue revenue venue of ot the railroads IR in hi hian an any year up to 1923 1021 with the exception of 1910 and 1917 It exceeds the net income Income In in- come cone of the entire petroleum industry for an any year ear up to 1923 1925 and perhaps since Various states use nse part of this tax tux fund for schools buildings s sea walls Inland waterways tax reduction on other types of or property oyster conservation conservation conser conser- and the like There is a well defined move moe to shift shirt more and more of oC the cost of government onto the motorist Gasoline bootlegging by which the I tax is dodged is rampant Recently In an editorial entitled Killing the Goose the Ute Baltimore Sun said When a six sir cent tax lax is levied Je on a commodity which co costs ts from 12 to 20 cents or a little more the point must have ha been reached where it bears so heavily on the consumer consumer consumer con con- I sumer that he will be forced to economize economize mize In use of It If he does not the only other argument which seems likely likely like like- likely ly to check the steady increase in gasoline gasoline gaso gilso- line taxes I Is a n revolt re which will threaten threat threat- en political retaliation ul upon on those responsible responsible responsible re re- re- re for further exactions Our t tax x legislators mi might ht take the hint Perhaps the public will take to political retaliation as the only way out I |