| Show THE SALES TAX tho the different schemes tor for paying taxes have become so complicated that every vaudeville artist in the country has amused his audiences by making jokes about their income blanks everyone seems to he be perfectly milling illing N to let tho the burden of taxation fall upon his neighbor providing it reduces reduce the size of his own check to tho the tax collector As on one e follows the arguments with relation to tax schemes ile ho cannot help but feel sympathetic with tho the deer old lady alic suggested that if these taxes aro are so bad why do wo we have them bother us the proposed sales tax has been discussed in washington before tho the senate finance committee Il and at tho the outset the arguments ts were all in support 0 of tho the plan now comes R G elliott of chicago representing the credit men who contends that the operation of tile the tax will make it tall fall upon the ultimate consumer thereby throwing the burden upon the necessities 0 of life and upon persons least able to pay on oil the other hand it is said in behalf 0 of the sales tax that it is direct and to the point and although it may have its painful features the taxpayer knows exactly when ho he Is being touched for liis his part of the expense in the running of the public machinery nevertheless the sales tax would doubtless outrival ill the present nuisance features of existing sting tax laws it if put into effect wo might expect to hear it referd referred ea to as tho the blamed nuisance tax the labor unions aro are doing so already |
