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Show tents of the cost of each gallon. In some states it comes to appreciably more than that. And the gas sales tax isn't the! end of the matter by a long ; shot. Every operation and product of the oil industry is taxed in one way or another. The industry pays two taxes to the federal government, 68 to state governments, and 19 to municipalities. munici-palities. When the motorist buys a dollar's worth of gasoline he gets perhaps half or two-thirds as much as he would if the tax collector was not so busy bailing out the bank. Once, to be sure, gas tax revenue was spent on roads, but that day is past. The motorist now pays for roads and he pays for fisheries fisher-ies and schools and a lot of other things things which should be paid for by all taxpayers, and not one class. The oil industry is offering cheap gasoline. The tax boosters are making it extremely expensive gasoline. That's where matters stand and where they will continue to stand until the motorist mo-torist rebels at paying exhorbitant tax tribute. I I THE "HIGH COST" OF GASOLINE TAXATION. Gasoline, by comparison with 1913 price levels, is one of the cheapest commodities on the American market, even in this time of bankrupt prices. A good many motorists may giv" that statement a Bronx cheer, 1 ii, it's a fact, as the commodity cost indices will prove. When we attack the high cost of gasoline, we are misnaming it it should be called the high cost of gasoline taxation. ' In the average state, at the moment, the gas tax accounts for six to eight |