The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-24
UNCLE SAM is COLLECTING
TAXES
Everybody Digging In The
Pocket To Help Balance
The Budget

The Budget
| Uncle Sam has both hands in
the pants pockets of the ma
ton. The new orgy of taxa
ton began Tuesday. You may.
not like it, but you'll help pay
the fiddler just the same.
In Washington they call it
part of the scheme to balance
the budget"
On Main street they are call
ing it various other names,
many Of them unprintabie.
AS if the new schedule con-
tanning the various excise tax
es isn't enough, the first-class
postage rate will increase from
two to three cents on all letters
mailed July 6 and thereafter.
The taxes which went into
effect Tuesday on various items
of merchandise and manufact-
ured products were fixed in tie
$1,118,5 100000 revenue bill
passed by Congress June 6, and
they'll hit Mr.. Average Man
smack between the eyes.
When you buy a car, per
cent of the selling price will be
added for Uncle Sam. That
amounts to $50 on a $1,000
machine.
A Federal tax of one cent is
added to the price of gasoline.
On top of that, the govern
ment will grab a cent for each
quart of lubricating oil you use.
A share for Uncle Sam Will
be added to the price of new
tires and tubes, four cents a
pound for castings and two and
a quarter cents a pound for
tubes.
Electric light bills are goirg
up, too, at the rate OF three
extra pennies for every DOLLARS
worth of current.
II you make long-distance
telephone calls, or send tele-
grams or radio messages, you'll
pay a tax for that, too.
AS you pay your bills, Cncle
Sam will have his hand ont for
a two-cent tax on each bank
check or draft which you use.
Ii you try to escape thai thru
the use of a safety deposit box
in which to keep your cash,
you'll be nicked just the same,
for the new tax schedule in
cludes an added 10 per cent for
safety box rentals.
Amusements mean another
contribution to the Treasury to
the tune of 10 per cent on any
ticket to a show or fight or a
game of any sort, if the price
OF admission is more than 40
cents.
Women who use cosmetics
will pay 10 per cent hereafter
on their face powders, lipstick
and other aids to- beauty.
Up goes the price of jewelry.
too, 10 per cent on any bauble
which costs over So.
Furs-coat or scars-also
will carry a 10 per cent tax.
Uncle Sans share, when you
buy a new radio set or go after
a set of tubes for the old one,
will be 5 per cent more. Phon-
ographs and records are in
cluded in this division.
Sporting goods, cameras,
arms and ammunition will car
ry a 10 per cent tax, The
good old 75-cent golf ball, for
instance, now will cost $1.63
for two.
The new electric refrigerator
will cost 5 per, cent more.
Even matches will carry a tax.
1t is so low it won't be charged
at all on a penny box % match
es-but you'll get fewer match
es for your penny.
A 2 per cent tariff goes into
effect on chewing gum sales.
Soft drinks and soda water syr-
ups, and even the gas they put
into the soda water, are on the
list for the public, which pays
and pays and pays.
Motor boat "bugs" and
yachtsmen have not been o7er-
looked, especially with GUNNER
coming on. Hereafter there
will be an annual operating tax
on pleasure craft, ranging
from $40 to 5000 a year.
And don't forget the candy
tax if you have a sweet tooth.