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His administrative costs have m■ creased tremendously through requirements that he perform special • t bookkeeping functions for government, serve as tax collector, as well as taxpayer, and reply both perkgjically and without notice, under threat of fines and imprison.ment, to demands for detailed in; formation on questionnaires eircu>. lated by the Bureau of the Cencus, Federal Trade Commission and other agencies. » ,
Costs may be influenced sharply by agreements conceded far from his community by big business and burden .has become so heavy, and the tax structure has become so intricate and inequitable, as, to ’ nudge him inexorably toward liv q'uidation or absorbtfon by a national firm able to exist on narrower margins of gross profit.
As often has been stated, bigV ness in itself is not evil, but if the small businssman is to vanish from •- the American business scene, it will mark the virtual extinction of the middle class, which ,through I; history has been a major source of our national vigor. :: f .., ..... ' ,/
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