Show I Taxes That Are Taxes Charles ChaTles F F. Scott att director of publicity publicity pub pub- licit for the Republican National Committee sends out this cheerful tax l story But whatever action Congress 68 may take American taxpayers ors may thank lucky stars that no such burdens burdens burdens bur bur- dens will be laid upon them as ns the tho latest act of or the British government loads onto the tho already bowed shoulders shoulders shoulders ders of ot its citizens In London a man manI nth filth a wife and two children whose I income is a year will pay a a. tax of while a man In the United States similarly situated would pa pay 1238 1238 A single man with an income of 1800 in England must pay a tax tag of while a aman single man in iii tho the United States would pay but upon up-on his 1300 1800 1 1800 In other words the t e income tax ta in England Englund is 18 from 90 to times TS as hi high h as in the tho United States Ther The r I now British law lays a tax of 1 16 G cents cents a n gallon on gasoline 1 18 10 percent per per- rent cent on theatre tickets and so on up I and down tb the line lino With all tho the outcry outcry outcry out out- cry against high taxes in Me Obe Vb e United States what a n long way we have togo to togo togo go before we Teach reach the tho exactions to which British subjects must submit I Erie Erie Record t I |