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Show "9c out of ever dollar taken in (whether or not a profit was made), or "Over $260 in cash every week. "These taxes took enough money out of our plant to pay for any one of the following: "Heat, for 22 years. "Postage for nine years- "Electric lights for 32 years. "Water 'for 103 years. "Electric power for nine vears. ... "Electric heat for typesetting machines for 22 years. "Telephone for 21 years. "Freight costs for 12 years. -Insurance for 15 years ... "You may ask . . 'Well, what are we going to do about it?' "The answer is: We don t know. We know that spending by government is too high . . . that taxes are too high and r going higher . . . we'll do our share of the squawking, but one voice is hardly an uproar. "Actually, we would propose that tax-conscious people everywhere every-where seriously consider the problem gefore the next primary pri-mary election in 1958. At that time something can be done if everyone will crackdown on the spenders in Washington." PUBLISHER OF WEEKLY PAPER SADLY REPORTS THE TAX BITE What does high federal taxation and reckless spending in Washington mean to the publisher of an average weekly newspaper? Guy T. Ludi, of The Wahoo Newspaper (combining The Democrat and The Wasp) in Wahoo, Nebraska, recently reported re-ported : "We paid to the federal government an average of $6.53 per hour for every hour our plant was in operation last year. This figure is equal to the salaries of three slkilled workmei for an entire year . . . three skilled workmen that never showed up for work. - "The federal taxes we paid could be compared to another unusual equal ... It cost Ludi Printing Company $52.00 every workday morning to unlock the front door. But, if this sounds ridiculous to you, just follow along on these further comparisons: com-parisons: "The amount of federal government gov-ernment taxes taken out of this plant last year was equal to: two and a quarter full page ads each week ... or |