Show IS BLISS blise SOMETIMES when a housewife ot of any one of 0 a number ot of states walks into it a grocery store to buy tood food tor for her family she Is obliged to pay ft a direct state stale sales tax on virtually everything she purchases the tax lax ranges generally from a penny upward depending on the th e size ot of the purchase As a rl result suit of this form ot of taxation the people ut at those states are to some ex extent tent at leas tax conscious saturday afternoons when MM afra consumer Is stocking up on groceries tor for the week ahead one may of oton observe her haggling with a weary clerk over an error ot of a paltry penny in the sales tax she Is paying a direct tax knows it and resents it because it forces her to the necessities of pay a premium on life but ironically she Is serenely to the fact that the sales tax represents only a small fraction of the total tax which she pays on all 0 of lifes necessities as well as on luxuries for example taking the nation as a whole invisible but traceable taxes are 64 per cent of the retail arico of bread per cent of the price of boet beef and per cent ot alo price of sugar mrs consumer ilori net realize mis IMs unpleasant fact act likewise she probably does i ast rt realize that if her husband is an average 18 a week laborer or clerk who owns no property they pay kllc annually in these hidden taxes federal state stale and local I 1 it the she and tho the majority ot of consumers dd realize it the federal debt not now be in the neighborhood 0 of |