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Show Another New Racket Mounting galolint taxes have led to tht development of a new racket. Tax evasion and tax fraud have become rampant in several states. It is uid that profits from the racket havt been divided with cgnnivin. o,ff-i.iUi-tx.cl as i,n jjt: uflt ticket, gasalnie bootlegging is common. To meet thtst conditions it is suggested sug-gested that tht oil industry and motorist! mot-orist! work together to secure such safeguards as licensing and bonbing of all dealers, adequate provisions for checking shipments and sales, and so on. This might do a great deal of good. But tht fundamental trouble is the fact that the states, through their attitude that "one cent m.W g tax won't do any hrnj" have hooded hood-ed the gas tax far beyond sound limits, l?4 $ve atttacttd the racketeer. In tome states higher gas tax have actually act-ually produced less avenue than did a lower tax.. Perhaps no tax has kea so abused as that jo, gasoline. The motorist has bej made to pay for schools, fish hatcheries and what not. And now tbe racketeer is putting in an a-ppearance. a-ppearance. It is-1 time all motorists demand quick and adtquatt wliet |