Gunnison Valley News | 1930-08-28 | Page 4 | More for a Dollar

MORE FOR A DOLLAR. . Various surveys, conducted in different dif-ferent parts of the nation, show that the purchasing power of the dollar is steadily increasing. Last year commodity prices ranged rang-ed from 15 to 40 per cent higher than today's level. As a consequence, the average income, from the standpoint stand-point of what it will buy, is appreciably apprec-iably greater than it was a year ago, but if the trend toward rising taxes of all kinds continues, the tax collector, col-lector, not the public, will be the principal beneficiary of declining price levels.