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...most remarkable fact about all GOP computations is that, regardless of the number of taxes on a product, the amount that they represent is persistently the same-about 20% of the retail price. Thus, though a 10? loaf of bread's 2? tax represents a mere 58 taxes, TIME'S 1,793,000 taxes would amount to only a penny more...
...prosecutions, instead of just intimidating propaganda designed to scare people, to stop them from talking about high taxes imposed by the New Deal. . . . What is the Department of Justice going to do to Governor Alfred M. Landon? At Buffalo he said that people paid 2? taxes on every loaf of bread...
...breakfast table his average wife joins him, points out that "more than 50 tax collectors take 2? of the dime they paid for the loaf of bread." In the course of the day the Taxpayer counts 1,200 taxes, his wife...
...taxes which, they claimed, added 2? to the price of bread. An amazing political document, the list contained not 58 different kinds of taxes, but only 16 types, which the Republicans had multiplied by applying them individually at each step in the process of making and selling a loaf of bread. Thus a Federal income tax paid by farmer, grain elevator, flour mill, railroad, flour trucker, baking company and retail distributor counted as seven taxes. Even after multiplication, it was shown that only 13 of the 58 taxes were Federal. The rest were state, county, local or municipal...
...early last week with Sons James, John and Franklin Jr. for shipmates, a crew of two. "I haven't the faintest idea where I'm going, except to work to the east'ard," he told newshawks before casting off. "I'm just going to loaf and have a good time...