Show WHO PAYS THE BILL an incident took place in a small western town recently that contains food for thought A farmer went into the local pool hall and found a number of shipyard workers playing pool on a weekday week day holiday the question arose as to why they were not working and they told him it was vas because they could not get double time pay the tanner farmer blew up and told them what he thought of such demands in this emergency they seemed surprised and eald cald what do you care it cost you anything the tb government pays the bill this bring up the question of who pays pas the tac fac toles and workers producing wartime equipment no one but the hard bard press ed taxpayers including men and ft women omen in every walk of life even e en the shipyard workers themselves government has no money to pay anybody anything until it first collects it from the pe people government la is merely an agent of the people every bit of waste by government industry or labor comes out of the pockets of the 60 people it la is a pity that any person thinks government pays pas tor for waste or exorbitant bitant charges of any I 1 kind ind the people pay through the nose in higher and higher taxes |