Show Good or Bad The Creat Creal Society Is No Bargain For those who like It the Great Society may be worth every penny it is costing For those who oppose It any price Is too loo high The trouble is that both sides of the argument usually usually ally have no Idea just what the tab will come to The facts are interesting no matter how you look at it THIS YEARS YEAR'S administrative budget and this is considerably consider consider- ably smaller than the sum total I of the Treasury's total expenditures expendi- expendi I tures was teas announced at under billion by President Johnson Johnson John John- son However the best estimates estimates esti- esti mates as of now are that by the end of the fiscal year on July I 1 1966 the Administration have gone at least 10 billion over what was budgeted This will give the Treasury one of the biggest peacetime deficits in I history Only part of this can be dumped in the Great Society's lap Alter After all close to 50 billion billion bil- bil lion will go for defense alone and there are such expenditures as foreign aid a solid 33 billion billion bil- bil lion and other programs begun by previous Administrations GREAT SOCIETY programs for which the American taxpayer taxpayer tax tax- payer will be paying In the next five years add up to some billion in new authorizations Of that 1 billion will go to the the Appalachia relief project 7 billion for to edu a federal aid to catlon cation step up and estimated 5 billion for forthe forthe the poverty war A 20 billion measure for various federal subsidies sits sitson on President Johnsons Johnson's desk I awaiting his signature The In- In |