Show I 1 I 1 huiess Hii ess taxes really hurt H B RAYMON fc PITCAIRN an CAIRN national Cli chairman airman ol of the republic I 1 1 during recent months has 63 heard a gr growing QIng bf protest the 1 1161 rd painless taxes tiu thal term used by politicians to th describe those taxes which are not i levied directly but are aie hidden instead I 1 in the cost of food shelter and other necess necessities necessity iti e s the theory lathat Is ls that what the average citizen t know about the costs of government wont won t hurt huft him and that it wont won t hurt the officials who aln fl th ahse ase costs either but unfortunately for the th theory such stich taxes are to attain a high ot fit visibility F for or a while they them were discernible discern ibe only in the rising coltof cost of living now they have comi come more clearly into the light A recently published analysis of federal fedrial Fede ial income I 1 I 1 sources tem tells the story much as follows in 1932 direct ta taxes x cs on income corporations po rations etc produced 58 per cent ot of our federal revenue philp indirect t taxes es baked luto into your bread and woven into your clothes produced per cent approximately in 1933 direct taxes produced only I 1 42 per cent of our revenue while in direct taxes climbed to 58 per cent t approximately i in 1834 1934 di t taxes taxes produced 34 1 pel ea i cent of our federal income while tn in direct taxes soared to 66 per cent cen j approximately 1 in 1935 the proportion of hidden taxes dropped a bit direct taxes pro deuced 38 per cent while indirect taxes for 61 H per cent but the I 1 i total of invisible taxes continued to i soar it rose to approximately 2231 who paid those taxes hidden in the he oost cost of living the rich to a minor 1 degree but the avei whelmine whelming wh elming share was paid by that huge majority ot of average citizens who labor to buy food I 1 and clothes and shelter for themselves and their families and the larger the kf r family amily the higher the bill I 1 i to whom then are hidden taxes I i painless to no one it would seem I 1 i and certainly ceita not to the great body of 0 I 1 american worl wor lers and earners who continue to pay thon them in 06 form of bi rising prices for Chr everything they buy |