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HAIRCUTS FOR 30 YEARS
One trouble with most discussion cf taxation is that they involve statistics which are incomprehensible to any but the specialist. Now praiseworthy efforts are being made to dramatize the tax problem in a manner that will bring it home to all of us.
An Iowa barber shop, for instance, featured a sign saying that the average customer could get his hair cut twice a month for 30 years for the money he paid in direct and hidden taxes in 1952. A Texas department store had a window display of two male mannequins showing all the clothes, luggage and Other supplies one year’s taxes would buy. A utility company did a similar thing, showing the number of appliances, including washer, stove, etc., the average-income family could have bought with its tax money. — This is one highly effective way of showing up the tax problem for what it is—a problem that is a direct, personal and extremely important matter to everyone.
How Tolerant Can We Get?
The more we read about the causes pf traffic acidents the more we wonder why there aren’t even more of them.
One of the most astounding bits of information we have ever read was a recent announcement by the Association of Casualty and Surety Companies that in less than a dozen
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