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Show Taxed, Too? It seems to Marian that everything that she especially likes bears the burden bur-den of the now war tax sundaes, sodas, so-das, candy, beads, and about everything every-thing she had been accustomed to ask for when mother and father went to town. Now they limit the number of luxuries they buy for her and always explain their limitation by saying "on account of the war tax" or "plus the war tax." The other day a new baby sister came to Marian's home. Fixedly she looked at it the next day after its arrival. ar-rival. "What did it cost?" she asked. "Twenty dollars," boasted her father. fa-ther. The second question quickly followed, fol-lowed, "plus the war tax?" |