TAXATION IN AMERICA.
Some painstaking statistician furnishes an American contemporary with an account of the advantages, or perhaps mo»t would prefer to call them disadvantages, under which the United States citizen exists in regard to taxation of food, from which the following was taken :—" He washes himself in the morning with soap taxed 31 per cent. It being Friday and he being a man of moderate means, he liaa a light breakfast of mackerel taxed 25 per cent., with rice taxed 123 per cent., and some salad on which he uses salt taxed 36 per cent., and sweet oil taxed 34 per cent. The sugar he uses in his coffee is taxed 42 per cent., and he pays 45 per cent, on the spoon wherewith he stirs up the sugar in. his coffee. A few pickles as a relish are taxed 35 per cent., and he adds to them vinegar taxed 26 per cent., and tops off his breakfast with an orange ta.zed 20 per centi
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Waikato Times, Volume xxvi, Issue 2458, 8 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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166TAXATION IN AMERICA. Waikato Times, Volume xxvi, Issue 2458, 8 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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