Show FIND THE TAX FREE FR MAN A nationwide nation wide poll indicates that 25 per cent of the people believe they do not pay taxes says the kansas city times presumably these are people who never ride in motorcars who do not live in houses or apartments who do riot not buy food or clothing or do any of the other things that go to make up present day living that 25 per cent is pretty mythical ical its the supreme example of self delusion it sees no tax hills and so so concludes it does not pay its pretty much like saying that bec because ause you dont see the heat or the cold neither can exist whet this all adds up LID to is simply that the great bulk bulic of tax taxes collected in this country are hidden taxes nobody sends you a cuart quarterly erly or an annual statement showing the total you pay instead you pay taxes hourly daily weekly in little pieces when you make a purchase or pay your rent or go to a show and in ft a years time those little pieces total more than 20 per cent of your entire income I 1 in n other words your earnings for over one month out of 0 five go to the tax collector instead of into your own pocket A search for the man who pay taxes would be about as fruitless as diogenes classic search tor for the completely honest man he would have to be someone who eat wear clothes live anywhere buy newspapers and magazines a man in brief who deesh do anything at all and need anything to do it with all the rest of us are taxed and plenty |