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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAn Motorist Pays lax Big Hidden hidden. If an average is taken of gasoline prices and taxes in all States it will be found that each motorist pays a tax on every dollars worth of gasoline he buys. Baird H.' Markham, director of, the' Petroleum Industries There is Committee, recently said: a tendency on the part of motorists to increase in the price protest a of gasoline while the majority of them continue to overlook a gasoline tax which is the equivalent of a sales tax of 40 per cent on the retail price. The burden of taxes is increasing. The remedy is in reduced governmental extravagant spending, and in the realization of every man that he does have a real, and personal interest in the cutting out of wasting of billions That is why the by his government. national annual budget vitality and directly affects the home budget in every household in the land. Government Extravagance Is Burden on Every Household. 40-ce- One of the most familiar examples of that group of citizens who laugh at hidden taxes is the care-fre- e motorist. If government spending breaks all peace-timrecords, sending deficits and public debts to new high marks, the car driver still hugs the comfortable delusion that somebody else Is 1 pay no income paying the fiddler. tax." says he. and own no stocks or real estate. Taxes mean nothing to me." That motorist may be astonished to learn from the federal government ' records that he and his fellow paid $20,025,950 to federal tax collectors during the first month of the present year. These internal revenue collections on cars, fuel, accessories. etc., were substantially less in the preceding January, the figure for that month being $20,62:1,887 e , car-owne- OFFER There are the January Commodity Taxed Gasoline Lubricating oil Pipe line oil shipments Crude oil processed collec- Jan., - 1936 $14,008,584 1,981,240 946,130 77,273 630,623 5,653,914 . 659,342 1,682,338 386,506 ...... Mjtor trucks Motor cars and cycles Motor parts and accessories Tires Inner tubes .' $26,025,950 Total It will be seen from the above that, whether he knows it or not, the car owner pays nine different Federal taxes on his automobile and the fuel to run it. Manufacturers of cars and- accessories and handlers of gasoline and oil, for the most part, pass the taxes thfi individjtiaJ car owner. In - un-io- . j frequent statements leaders explaining that business expansion and employment have been retarded by uncertainty as to how far the federal government has gone, or, may go, into competition with private business. Another fear expressed was as to the effect on business of various items of legislation particularly with relation to taxes. The following paragraph from a purchasing order by a large western contracting firm shows how these uncerbusitainties operate on the every-daness transaction: Seller agrees to indemnify and save buyer harmless, and to assume full responsibility for payment of all state and federal taxes for unemployment insurance, old age pensions, or any other social security legislation as to all employees engaged in the perform ance of this contract, and further agrees to meet all requirements that may be specified in regulations now or hereafter promulgated from time to time by administrative 'officials. The seller was required thereby to assume a variety of obligations that formerly were unheard of in business transactions. The incident is signifi cant in connection with the oft-rpeated question as to why economic with COUNTRY HOME, 1 Year and your choice of any OF THESE C& 3 $ PUBLICATIONS t McCalls Magazine Household Magazine Pathfinder (52 issues) Boys Life (Boy Scouts) D SiIver Screen recovery Is lagging. How Inflation By WALTER E. SPAHR Secretary, Economists National Committee on Monetary Policy and Member of the National Advisory Council of the American Liberty League. While currency inflation is taking place some classes appear to benefit, notably the farmer. For this reason the principal farm leaders are advocating currency inflation. Drives for currency inflation in this country have been, and are today, to a large extent agrarian movements. The benefits in the case of the farmer, as with other classes, are apparent and not real. 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Gasoline is one of the cheapest com modities on the market today, but it also is one of the most heavily taxed. collected in Gut of the $20,025,950 s in January highway-userfrom taxes $14,008,584 was for gasoline. The following table shows how the large share of internal revenue taxes is divided. The tigures are grouped by the American Petroleum Institute from the tables of the 0. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue. 'Following tions: 5 addition to these burdens the car owner. of course, has to pay' State grso-- ' line taxes and pay for registration fees. State taxes for gasoline in 193.1 have been estimated at 3630,000,000. The average car owner pays annually about $30 in taxes, most of which are After these debts are paid, however, he will begin to consider ways He will reand means of expansion. store his depreciated property, buy new equipment, Increase his number of employees, and perhaps purchase new buildings and land. When he begins buying he will find that the prices are rising rapidly or have risen to startling heights. To buy before prices rise will seem prudent The tenborrow in order to buy will to dency increase. Thus as inflation continues farm debts will mount steadily. The burden and distress associated with old debts will be forgotten. The steadily rising prices of agricultural products will appear to provide ample assurance that all is well. The more the currency is inflated the higher, the further prices will rise and" the greater will he the amount of new debts accumulated. Conditions After 1920. comes Then the headache. In time the inflation of the currency will come to an end, prices will collapse, and the dangers and burdens of the debts will become painfully apparent. Enforced liquidation will begin its destructive course. Distress and suffering will become widespread. Farmers will realize then that once again they are living through the hard times which Invariably follow an inflation. The difficulties which farmers have experienced since the collapse of 1920 have been due largely to the credit Inflation which took place during the World war and to the related maladjustments which the war and inflation generated. Periods of falling prices and liquidation are almost invariably caused by a receding period of currency inflation. Therefore to urge inflation as a means of overcoming the distress of depression is but to prepare the way for another period of distress. Snow Goose and Brant The snow goose Is found in large numbers, nesting on the western part of Baffin island, while the brant is found over wide areas as far north as Ellesmere island in Arctic waters. Fresh Taxes Congressmen who are scared about saying out loud that New Deal spending means sure enough fresh taxes remind us of a London lady in reduced circumstances who had to sell fish for a living. She went about the streets calling Fresh fish! Fresh fish! but 1 each time she added to herself: me! hears hope nobody Scolding the Women The New Deal publishes a magazine, The editor recently The Consumer. made the charge that women take too much timp trying on hats. The New Deal ought to know. It can put on a r bonnet and walk out the hat shop quicker than a fireman can slide down a brass pole. billion-dolla- Devaluation Some folks think it was so easy to devaluate the dollar to 59 cents that they now want to devaluate the Constitution to 30 cents. . OARP Seen as Bureau-Build- er Townsend Tax Collections Would Require Huge U. S. Staff. The American people have become iccustemed during the past tluee years m th,' creation of large bureaucratic rgi nizations to enforce regulatory uvs 'Ilte alphabetical agencies thus up would be insignificant in the bureaucracy uniarisoti with Iiifli would. lie required to admin-ste- r the Townsend plan As many as 10,000,000 returns would oe received monthly from those required to report the payment of taxes. There are about 6,000.000 farmers, .500.000 retail stores, (500,000 employers of domestic servants, 545,000 independent professional men, 175,000 man165,000 establishments, ufacturing wholesalers, 145,000 construction firms, 0 125.000 firms and service trades, banks, stock brokers, etc., 20,000 transportation companies, 15,000 hotels, and 10,000 mines and quarries. Returns from taxpayers numbering 10.000.- 000 monthly would mean In a year a total of 120,000,000 to be reviewed and administered. The handling of checks to pensioners also would represent a huge clerical task. Checks would go out to 8.000.- 000 or more persons monthly, or nearly 100,000,000 annually. Just what such a volume of documents would mean may be realized by a comparison with the present task of the Internal Revenue Bureau in nection with income tax laws. Only about 4,000,000 individuals and about, 500.000 corporations file income tax returns. Furthermore, income tax returns are. filed annually rather than monthly. Even the handling of 4,500,-00- 0 returns involves many difliculties and their auditing drags on over a period of years. at set v 1 125,-00- World Keeps Moving De world keeps goin round, said n folks make Dncle Eben. trouble and confusion by makin believe deys pushin It. . Well-meani- |