Show sales tax questioned by basin resident recently the writer purchased an ice cream cone at a drug store and was requested to pay a one I 1 cent sales tax five minutes later a soda pop was ordered with an ail additional cent added A A few minutes later a loc can of marshiel lows extracted another cent instead of 2 per cent the purchaser realized that he had paid 15 per p ex cent sales tax the provision of this law is such that the merchant a merchant is a here used as an illustration Is only compelled to remit to the state 2 per cent on his monthly sales now what becomes of the other 13 per cent of my purchases did this druggist remit this entire amount to the state one have to stretch their imagination to guess it anyone questions this statement it can easily be verified by checking with the representatives representative of the state tax commission who recently visited the basin in the interest of this provision also that of the one dollar fee another joner saddled onto the backs of the consuming public whose purchasing power has been reduced to the vanishing point if the above statement Is a fact and it must remain so until refuted by figures from the fountain head it reveals a deplorable condition or lack of forethought on the part of our law makers whereby a condition was created where the merchant can collect a 15 per cent sales tax from the people whose distress Is almost unbearable and only remita per cent to the state in other words this law enables the merchant to receive a royalty at the expense of the desperately pera tely con consumer Is there any justice or equity in a law such as this A lady whose varsity for facts is unquestioned made the state stale that she had requested her merchant to allow her to ply pay her sales tax at the rate of 2 percent on her purchases at the end of each month this being a charge account the merchant refused to do so but charged a sales tax on each purchase thus running the tax much higher than 2 per cent why not be fair in these matters I 1 am wondering how long th the e people will endure tills this kind hind of ti treatment eat ment Is there a system set up by the state tor for checking the dally daily 0 monthly sales gales of each siler or la is it loft left entirely to the honesty of the merchant I 1 think we will find the latter to be the procedure C W SMITH |