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Show MOTORISTS . In REVOLT It would seem to a logical mind that the motorist contributes his shure of the cost of highways and streets when he pays a gas tax of : three or more cents a gallon. But ' In some states he must pay tribute to towns as well. More than 100 municipalities Including such large cities as St. Ix)uls, Kansas City, and New Orleans are now levying municipal gas taxes on top of the state tax. It Is argued that motor cars wear out streets exactly as they wear out jroads. So they do. The fair course of procedure and one that ; , has been adopted in several states "A Is to have a percentage of the state tax allocated to municipalities. municipali-ties. However, the community gas tax, if it goes far enough, may be a good thing. It will stimulate the "revolt of the motorist" that has of late been gathering (headway rapidly. The motorists pays a license li-cense tax, a registration tax, and in some cases a personal property tax on his car. He pays a state gasoline gas-oline tax, which is often excessive. In Jsome cases some of the funds he has paid out, ostensibly for highways, have been used for other purposes. He has become the target for legislatures seeking ways and means of rasing money. Unless motorists do something to stop higher gas taxes, it will not be long until the tax is the larger part of the cost of gasoline. |