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Show KAHN POINTS WAY TO ESCAPE HEAVY TAXES California Congressman Says People Must Cooperate With Government Congressman Julius Knhn of California, Cali-fornia, senior member of tho Military Affairs Committee of tho House, In a signed stMoment glvon out at Washington, Wash-ington, Iowa briefly somo of the problems confronting tho government In post-war finance and urges tho country to lit p congress hold down taxes. Ho said: "How Is tho United States going to pay hor war dobta which are now beginning be-ginning to flood the nation's treasury? Tho outflow of public funds today.ls almost al-most on a par with the expenditures made while tho war was raging. Although Al-though there nro no moro munitions or Implements of war to bo purchased, tho engines of destruction which American Amer-ican factories created to bring about tho downfall of tho Imperial government govern-ment of Germany Iravo not all been paid for. Then thero are tho heavy expenditures Incident to readjusting the world from a war to a peace basis. Reconstruction Cost Heavy. "It Is no nowa to students of history to bo told that the expenses of postwar post-war reconstruction have always been as groat and many times greater than tho actual war outlay. Food must bo ahlppod to our boya who are still on foreign soil. Money must bo raised .to Jurther. projects haying to do with fitting these noble heroes of ours with been maimed must not bo mado to como Into competition with tho sound. "Whoro Is tho money to como from? Tho pcoplo themselves, although they lont patriotic and wholehearted support sup-port to tho government's war program and mado unprecedented sacrlflcon, kocnly felt the offect of tho taxoa Imposed Im-posed In tho rovenuo blll'auch as they had never faced before and would hilvo not submitted to oxrept In vlow of extraordinary ex-traordinary circumstances. Now thnt tho wa,r Is over wo must find1 somo way of raising money to llnanco tho various nocossary projects confronting tho nation. People Must Cooperate. Tho pcoplo must conporntc. nnd thoy can cooperate, without paying heavy taxes. Thoy can contlnuo to lnvost In War Savings Stamps, Llborty Donds and other government securities, nnd tiylp the government by helping thorn-helves. thorn-helves. "Tho government offers Its citizens a two-fold proposition, mutually helpful. Funds can bo inlscd to help tho government gov-ernment meet Its obligations, by the patriotic cooperation of tho pcoplo, who aro at tho snmo tlm-i making as safo an Investment as c-h bo mado In securities, backed by tho most stnblo business on earth, Unit of Undo Sam." |