Show works half a day for food housing average wage za earner labors 57 Ali minutes for taxes CHICAGO john american the nations average wage earner puts in more than half of his eight hour workday work day earning food and housing for or his family a national consumers e rs tax commission analysis snows lie he works another 45 minutes to pay for clothing 61 minutes for personal expenses such as medical care and recreation 41 minutes for transportation por tation and 42 minutes for other miscellaneous items and during the purchasing of all these family needs according N C T C he pays an amount in hidden taxes equivalent to his earnings tor for 57 minutes of this adf average r work day the analysis by the N C T C a national tax study organization seeking to expose indirect taxes casba was based sed on a tabulation of all expenditure pend iture items of families earning 2500 a year and less in 32 representative senta tive communities from coast these amounts were then transformed into the respective fractions of the eight hour day that john american works in earning the money to pay for the expenditures thus according to the analysis he works two hours and 33 minutes for the food for his wife and children and himself he works another two hours and 18 minutes for housing and the costs of household operation and furnishing miscellaneous items including savings gifts education insurance direct taxes and others add the final 42 minutes to john americans work day but in every purchase this average wage earner pays hidden taxes as a concealed fractional part of the price said mrs airs kenneth C frazier N C T C president consequently he really works part of his day earning these extra amounts in all these tax fractions add up to a total equivalent to his earnings for 57 minutes |