PROTECTION IN AMERICA.
Somo painstaking statistician has furnished an American contemporary with an account of the advantages, or perhaps most would prefer to call them disadvantages, under which the United States citizen exists in regard to taxation of food, from which the following is taken : — " He washes himself in the morning with soap taxed 31 per cent. It being Friday, and he a man of moderate means, he has 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, tax 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 taxed 20 per cent."
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Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 69, 24 March 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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167PROTECTION IN AMERICA. Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 69, 24 March 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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