Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1916 — Skinning Taxpayers Painlessly. [ARTICLE]

Skinning Taxpayers Painlessly.

When the repair bills begin coming in for maintenance of impermanent roads, the taxpayer finds himself in the same fix as two brothers were in when they found they had been “trimmed” in a business deal. After vainly trying to figure it all out, Charles in disgust, declared: “John, we’re skinned; that’s al| they air to it.” In the same way the farmer finds he is out of pocket—painlessly “skinned ’ —on anything less than roads built for, permanence. That’s all there is to it.—Ex. . A