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Show " WORLD'S TAX RECORD BROKEN. In 1927 n new world's record in tax collecting was established in this country when federal, state nnd 1W governments required $9,074,000,000 to keep going. It is believed that when the statistics for 1928 are gathered gath-ered wo will have definitely exceeded this former high mark. Tax records unlike other achievements, seldom outlast their year. An interesting phase of affairs is that the increase in taxes can mainly be laid at the door of state and local units of government. Federal economies econ-omies have kept federal taxes fairly constant. The solution, if we can find one, must deal with the unprecedented unprecedent-ed generosity or perhaps prodigality prodigali-ty of legislators and state and municipal mun-icipal office holders. Progress of course costs money. And civic and state spirit, that wants to outdo everything ever done before, is more or less oondcmable.. But community com-munity expenditures for luxuries and non-cssontials may easly bury the taxpayer tax-payer under a mound of indebtedness that will make progress impossible. |