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Show AUTO INDUSTRY PAYSHI6H TAX One of Best Supporters on National Expenses, Declares De-clares Hains 'The automobile Industry ik one of the world s preatest industrial taxpayers" taxpay-ers" says U L llains. manager Ogden Motor Car Co., local dealer In Chevro-. b-t passenger and colttfherclal cars "For every automobile manufactured manufac-tured 'In the I'nlted States, approximately approxim-ately $25 Is paid In taxes to the federal fed-eral government. The rales vary In all countries, but in the United SI -and Canada, which lead tho world in; automobile manufacturing, a substantial substan-tial sum la contributed car h year to the governmental treasuries. i in a norm..! b.i - pi oducl ion of more than I.jOo.uOO motor cars annually the manufacturers of the United States are. at the present time, paying into the federal treasury the enormous sum of approximately $(.-000,000 $(.-000,000 annually. 1'art of this Is. of course, emergency taxes. "This revenue is in addition to tho license fees and usscasiiients levied on motor car owners by th governments of stales and provinces. "In 1 9 1 1 license fees paid by automobile auto-mobile owners In the United S' tea and used for highway construction and maintenance purposes, were sufficient suf-ficient to bulbl ,'ou miles of highway Statistics available for tho flscnli; year ending Julv 1 show a tremond-j ons pain in the number of motor vehicles ve-hicles In the Uplted Stales and Canada. This means thai in both countries the amount contributed by the automobile industry to the support of the government govern-ment Will be higher in lUIiU than ev , : before." oo |