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Show $60 EACH "It will cost $60 apiece for us to run the United States government next year. . "That is the way the total of $6,-500,000,000, $6,-500,000,000, the anticipated expenditure expend-iture during the fiscal month, figures out $60 for every man, womaii and child in the country. "Nobody can escape the tax. It falls unevenly, but surely. The man whose income is so small that he is not assessed by the bureau of inter-rial inter-rial revenue has to pay,- nevertheless, in the form of higher rent or food or some other convenience or commodity". commod-ity". Providence Journal. Add city, county and state taxes to this and then figure your tax bill. And yet private industry is criticized for organizing to try and curb the rapacity of the tax boosters and official offi-cial spender. |