Show abe occasionally you hear the remark that the little fellow using the term in the economic cense sell will vote for higher taxes locally and care nothing about the reduction or of taxes nationally because lie he pays little it if any federal income tax and pay on little property at home if the little fellow and there are a great many more of 0 him than the big ones has any such euch impression now Is a good time to erase it for it Is fallacious 40 0 o 4 0 o s one harvard economist who has given th the e matter considerable study estimates that the average income earner in the united states pays as least a year or about one dollar a day in taxes most of 0 which have been passed on down to down to him in one form or another the landlord collects in higher rents and the merchant who has to pay the tax of the manufacturer and the bhole saler ler passes it on down to the consumer in other voids as professor munro concisely put it taxes are an element in the cost of everything an element clement lust just as certain in interest wages and profit |