Show TAX FACTS in it a recent article merle thorp editor ot of nations business brings out some interesting facts about taxation the tax collector according accord ng to mr thorpe takes from each ot of us a days labor out of each week wo we earn around 80 billion dollars a year and tho the tac bill Is 13 billions almost one sixth out of every 11 persons working one Is a public employed emp loye A comparatively lew few years ago the ratio was one in 22 it if the modern trend toward a bigger bureaucracy continues probably ono one person in every five will soon be living oft off the rest reat ot of us mr air thorpe blasts the old supposition that taxes are paid by the corporations po rations legis and tho the wealthy and points out that every dollar taken in taxes from rom railroads rall roads or any other business roust must be collected in turn from the customers of that business sixteen cents out ot of eve every ry amerl ameri can dollar goes to the tha government a tact fact worth thinking about before enlarging governmental functions in any direction |