It's time Uncle Sam made good on the promise he made the people. He’s already eleven years late! During World War II, Congress put a "special'’ 3*"7 tax on freight transportation charges. This was not designed as a revenue-producing tax; it was intended to discourage private use of railroad transportation at a time when Uncle Sam needed the railroads to w in a war. The war’s over . . . but the tax lingers on. YOU are the one who pays this tax. The shipper doesn’t pay it, nor would you expect him to. It increases his cost of doing business, and the only sound way he can handle it is to tack it on the price of his product and pass it on to the consumer. Sometimes it’s much more than a 3r< tax, as far as you're concerned. In many cases, the tax is paid on materials shipped

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