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Show TAXES.WE DON'T MIND Having a chance to count up the dollar's dol-lar's the people have paid in the way of taxes on such things as cigars, cosmetics, toilet soaps, theater tickets, ice cream sodas, etc. Uncle Sam pretends to be shocked at our extravagance. He discovers discov-ers that more than $500,000,000 has been paid in as taxes on what he considers .luxuries .lux-uries and he proposes to enter upon a campaign of education to teach ius the practices of economy. The bewhiskered old gentleman with the 'striped trousers, the star-spangled vest and the plug had doubtless is right in iudging us extravagant. But iust what would he do if we weren't? How would he get the money with which to ran the government and to carry on investigations investiga-tions and to start campaigns of education, educa-tion, if we didn't indulge in luxuries and pay taxes on them? Economy is all right for the individual. But if practiced in the extreme by the mass, what would happen? We'd have to pay taxes on the necessities, wouldn't we? And we'd never nev-er stand for that at least not without a kick which would be heard round the world. Cheerfully we stand to be taxed on the expenditures we do not need to make. When we4blow our money like so many drunken sailors, we don't count the cost nor care what proportion Uncle Sam grabs as his share of the rake-off. We demand that our bread and butter and our chuck beef be sold us at rockbottom prices, and we'd never stand to be taxed for them. But when we want to go to the movies, or purchase silk stockings for our best girl, or fill up on ice cream or pate de f oi gras, we don't care a hang for the cost. And so, dear Uncle Samuel, so lone as you need the money hadn't you better get it out of us in the easiest way possible, and not have to extract it with a mallet and chisel? Provo Post. Bt r tn |