According to a calculation published in the New York _World_ the war revenue bill imposed a war tax of $80 on every man, woman and child in the United States, or approximately $400 for each family. The amount expected to be derived from each item is given in the following table: Individual income tax $1,482,186,000 Corporation income tax 894,000,000 Excess and war profits 3,200,000,000 Estate tax 110,000,000 Transportation 164,550,000 Telegraph and telephone 16,000,000 Insurance 12,000,000 Admissions 100,000,000 Club dues 9,000,000 Excise, luxury, and semi-luxury 518,305,000 Beverages 1,137,600,000 Stamp taxes--chiefly documentary 32,000,000 Tobacco and products 341,204,000 Special business and automobile-user's Taxes 165,607,000 -------------- Total $8,182,452,000 With the operation of this tax the people of the United States found it no longer possible to speak in terms of opprobrium of the tax-ridden people of Europe. The American income tax has a higher rate on large incomes than that provided for under the English system. A man in the United States with an income of $5,000,000 is taxed nearly 50 percent., more than in England. The New York _Tribune_ published tables printed below comparing the income tax rates of the United States with those existing in France and in Great Britain. INCOME TAX COMPARISON A compilation made for the _Wall Street Journal_ shows that the United States income tax even with the increases made in 1918 was still far lower than the English income tax: "The great bulk, numerically, of incomes taxed in 1917 was in the field reached by the lowering of the exemption in the 1917 law.... It is a fact, however, that no one of these new taxpayers was called on to contribute more than $40 to the government, as the rate was only 2 percent., while all other incomes paid a basic normal tax of 4 percent. The lowest rate for normal tax in Great Britain is 2 shillings and 3 pence on the pound, or 11¼ percent., and the exemption is only $600. The basic normal tax under the new English law is 6 shillings on the pound, or 30 percent., on all incomes over $25,000.