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Show CANDY INSTEAD OE LIQUOR Heavy consumption of candy has followed prohibition in Alaska. Recently Re-cently the Alaska -Engineering commission, com-mission, which has charge of the construction of the government railroad rail-road in the north, advertised for bids for 1,000 pounds of chocolates and caramels and hundreds of boxes of bar candy and chewing gum. The candy and gum will be taken north for the men working on the line. And yet candy is classed as a lux- niy and taxed special excise taxes' above all other taxes paid. No better illustration is needed to show the shortcomings and inequality in-equality of legislation passed under the stress of war conditions. The crisis Is now passed and our taxation taxa-tion systpin should be revised so as to equalize and lighten the tax burden bur-den on industry and thereby encour ago industrial expansion Instead discouraging It. |