Unfortunately, as the writer from whom I quoted above points out, "each new tax is seized upon for new extravagances." The very improvements in the art of taxation, instead of lessening the load, as one would logically suppose, seem to vereate new drags upon, the taxpayer, who in, self-protection forced to fight the taxes the in addition to the which the taxes are merely the method of meeting. "Yet," says the "Post" writer, "the very taxpayers who complain arc"often as culpable as the politicians and of-
I personally cannot but think that America will regret in years to come t is aiding and abetting extravagance in' many forms to-day. We find it particularly among the children. With such magnificent school premises, there follows naturally magnificent. school equipment. A school of four bundyed boys and girls in any thriving place in California, 1 would make bold to say, spends as much in all kinds of supposed necessary equipment as docs 2 school Great Britain double the size. This obviously has the effect of creating in the minds of the children an utter disregard for property, and the newcomer notices this particularly if he has been brought up in and European country. The boy at school in the United States has more pocket money to spend as he pleases than many adults in older' countries. Any toy or plaything, his bicycle, his radio set, or any: thing that figures so largely in the, stock in trade of the modern boy,
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