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· May 3l 1929 I WILMETTE LIFE 53 MOTOR CLUB OmCIALS OPPOSE UNJUST GAS TAX Auto Club of Illinois Joins With A. A. A. In Issuing WarningMotorists. Are Reasonable Vigorous opposition to the growing tendency on the part of state legislatures to increase gasoline taxes beyond reasonable limits was expressed by the American Motorists' association, in cooperation with The Automobile Club of Illinois in a warning issued in Washington last week. "Autoists do not object to paying a reasonable gasoline tax when the funds are used for the construction and maintenance of roads," the association declared, "but they do object to· the payment of unreasonable, unjust and inequitable gasoline taxes and particularly where a portion of the tax fund is diverted to general public uses." The privilege of taxing gasoline is being abused in some states simply because it is a convenient method of raising revenue and because the money is available for use immediately upon collection, the association ·s statement points out. Pay Tax in All States Autoists now . pay gasoline taxes in· each of the 48 states of the union. Fifteen states, and the District oi Columbia, charge a rate of two cents per gallon, fourteen states charge three cents. twelve states four cents !'ix states five cents, and one state si~ cents. "Since the first gasoline tax was imposed in Oregon ten years ago, autotsts have paid more than a billion dollars in gasoline taxes. Ninety percent of this sum was paid during the last four years. The C. S. Bureau of Public Roads has estimated that the nation's gasoline tax bill last year was $300,000,000, and it is conservatively predicted that about $450,000,000 will be collected this year. · "The average gasoline tax rate paid last year was about 25 percent of the filling station price. This is in reality a sales tax and is an unreasonabl~ rate. ( nless autoists take prompt steps to curb the prevailing tendency of state legislatures gasoline taxes are bound to be increased. :Moreover, not all of the money derived from gasoline taxes is being used for road work in some states. This is a violation of the principle under which gasoline taxes were originally . levied," the association's statement declares. Autoiat Ia Reasonable "The Autoist is willing to pay a reasonable tax on gasoline because he feels that construction and maintenance of good roads can be expedited from this revenue," said Si. Mayer, Vice-President of the Association and President of The Automobile Club of Illinois, in commt> nting on the present trend of gasoH taxes. "Two evils, however, have w sprung up. First: The ease with ·hich the tax is collected, which has led some state legislatures to impose rates out of all proportion to the sales price of gasoline; and second, money derived from gasoline taxation is being ·diverted for uses other than highway purposes. "It must be remembered · that the gasoline tax is a consumer's tax. It is a tax per mile upon the operation of motor vehicles. In many states the gasoline tax is now unreasonable and autoists themselves must take prompt steps to prevent legislatures from further abusing the gasoline taxing privilege," Vice-President Mayer declares. Dodge Brothers Corporation announces that agreements have been signed and approved for 151 additional new dealers. II. Price doesn't sell PIERCE-ARROWS OT any more than people are attracted to a rare work of art-or anything else of outstanding fineness- by its price, are Pierce-Arrows sold through the purse appeal. But this doesn't mean that PierceArrow owners buy extravagantly, or without definite regard for value received. 1 N expressi~on of ac. t ual dollar's worth. But there is more than that to Pierce- Arrow ownership: There is the unfailingly delightful reassurance of possessing the most distinguished of ail automobiles-the very finest · thing of its kind. Arriving at the psychological moment, . the new Straight Eight is meeting today the greatest waiting demand in all Pierce-Arrow history. !.~ Where the new Straight Eight by Pierce-Arrow is concerned, no other fine automobile, including its own illustrious predecessors, ever offered so much-in beauty, in fashion, or in performance-in every Botl1 E·ti·· "' Pierce-A"""' -11·d Pilr&~·A"or" i· ,,.,., pt~rll ··tl . · -,:.· l%5 Horsepower Engine ~ 85 Miles per Hour ~ 133-inch and 1+3-inch Wheelbases ,< / Non-shatterable Glass ~ Fender or Bracket Hcadlamps optional without extra charge. II THE NEW STRAIGHT EIGHT BY FROM .2775 TO .8200 AT BUFFALO In purchasing a car from income, the average allowance on a good used car usually more than covers the initial Pierce-Arrow p_ayment ·l 1 Chicago Pierce-Arrow Sales Co. 2420.-22 S. Michigan Ave. Tel. Michigan 2400 Chicago Benell Motor .Sales 5714 Broadway