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Show INCOME TAX I AND BILLIONS. How would you like to have an in-M come of over $5.u00.000 a year'.' Would 1 j you grieve ;.nd grov weary, if you I had to pay mr omc tax on thai sum '' bat would you do with your money? J The income report of 1920 shows II i there are four men in the United M States who are receiving In profits J Over $5,000,000 a year. Two of them j I live in New York One of them must J t be John D Rockefeller. Two are in . I Michigan One undoubtedly Is Henry j ! Ford. Both men are careful spend- ..- Phal is they do not demand much for themselves, though they like money for the power It gives and the J opportunity It offers to big thing?. , There rtre over seven million men and women paying income taxes, and turn over to the government mors B than a billion dollar.-. In addition to J 'this, 203,000 corporations paid $1,625.- I J 000,000 in ii come taxe3. I It is only within the last few years i ta w L Uions i" doll ra havi tk-en I drawi froui I h $.- who ;.j , . . qk y i I dp defray the c 1 gov raiment , J The nation la spending more billions II !han ever before. Though we might 1 'desire to gc-t away from the income m lax, our expenditures would make all rvpeal of the law impossible. |