OCR Text |
Show THE LONG SUFFERING MOTORIST. The motorist is a helpless victim of taxation because there is no practical prac-tical substitute for gasoline. For almost any other commodity the consumer can use a substitute. But when it comes to gasoline, it's pay the tax or stop driving. The states started taxing gasoline "moderately," but, as with all special taxes, the gas tax soon became ex-j ex-j oibitant. Then the federal govern-i govern-i ment decided to take its pound of i flesh from the motorist, j Motorists have it in their power to ' demand a reduction of exorbitant ! gas taxes, including the actual repeal re-peal of the federal gas tax. They also i have the right to demand that gasoline gaso-line taxes be not used for other than road purposes. When taxes run from 25 to 50 per ' cent of the retail price of any article, i as the gasoline tax does, it is high 1 time to correct the abuse. |