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Show INDEPENDENT ra 2 Sugar House, Utah Thursday, April 2, 19o9 South East Independent The South East Independent is entered as Second Class Matter, March 1, 1946, in Salt Lake City Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. It is published each Thursday morning. TOM NOTESTINE Owner and Publisher HU 61 EMERSON S. SMITH Managing Editor DA 81 Subscription rates are $3.00 per year or ten cents for the single copy. Send all mail to box 136, Sugar House ' Station zone 6. of my neighbors, I am unable to sell them anything. Suddenly I get a brilliant idea. I go to the bank, mortgage my store, my inventory, my home and all that I have. This comes to a very tidy sum. I now give this money to my neighbors. They now have the cash, to buy my goods. Listen to my cash register ring out its joyous message! Look at the receipts at the end of, the; day! We never had it so good! We have all benefited! I have sold my goods and my neighbors have things they have wanted for years. But what is this? I find that I am now further in debt than all the rest of my neighbors - Appendix page A2240 - "The together. (Congressional record Federal debt - - is greater than the combined national debts of all other countries in the world".) Do you know Mr. Taxpayer, that 20 cents of every dollar you pay on your federal Income tax next month and next year, etc. and present foreign aid commitments will 'go to support past that foreign aid is responsible for Do you know Mr. Taxpayer, the employment of 600,000 Americans? Could it be possible that this group, plus their families and friends, constitute a small but vociferous lobby thumping for bigger and better foreign aid for the selfish reason of keeping themselves in their jobs? Next week, it is the intention of this column to point out .how foreign to American interests foreign aid is, and to look into case histories of a number of nations on the receiving end of the "Plague we Spread".. by John S, Hummel Governmental estimates of the cost of major construction projects have a habit of being far short of the mark. The 41,000-mil- e highway network authorized under the 1956 Federal Highway Act is an outstanding case in point. In that year, the cost was figured at $27.6 billion. Now, revised estimates place it at $40 billion - - more than half again as much. . ;' This means that heavy deficits are occuring in the highway fund. One proposed remedy is to increase the federal gasoline tax from its present three-cen- t figure to four and one half cents. All manner of organizations, representing farmers, manu-facturers, motorists, truckers ad others have gone on record in opposition. Their case is a powerful one. To begin with, a 4 cent federal tax imposed on top of the average state tax of 6 cents would mean a total of 10 y2 cent tax. That, as a researcher points out, would amount to 92 per cent of the refinery price of gasoline, 64 per cent of the tank wagon price, and 48 per cent of the retail price. Even extreme luxuries do not carry so heavy a tax - - much less an absolute necessity. If all the federal taxes collected from special levies on highway users were allocated ta the highway fund", where they manifestly belong, the deficit would be eliminated. In the last fiscal year these special taxes totaled $3.6 billion. But $1.5 billion or 42 went for non highway federal functions. This heavy diversion brings on the deficits. Congress should vote down the proposed tax increase. Then it should either devote all highway user taxes to highway purposes or stretch out the construction program so that available funds are adequate to do the job. The comments and ideas expressed by the guest columnist at not necessarily those, of this newspaper, Many volumes would be filled if all the arguments for and against Mutual Security or foreign aid were to be compiled. It is the purpose of this series of articles to acquaint the person paying for this program, You, The Taxpayer, with some of the facts behind it; to show you the real reason for its existance, to present case histories of its results in various countries, and to show you who actually benefits from this odious scheme. On February 26, 1958, one of the Salt Lake daily newspapers carried an editorial entitled: "How To Sell Foreign Aid". It dealt with the President's efforts to put across his requested appropriation for the year just past, and suggested how the public and congress coould be sold' on this program. "But what the President really needs," says the editorial, "Is an education approach that will get across to the American people. A great many still fail to understand that 'Foreign Aid' is actually and first of all American aid, that is our security and our prosperity that are the basic purposes of the program." Ironically enough this editorial appeared under the banner - "We stand for the Constitution of the United States as having been divinely" inspired." Nothing could be further removed from constitutionality than this asinine scheme. Indeed, it would be humorous if it were not so tragic. In a letter from the Department of State dated June 6, 1956, John P. Meagher, Chief of the Public Service Division writes, "At the same time, we recognize that the maintenance of a healthy expanding free economy here at home is essential; Based on our experience over the last three years, for example we know that three out of every four dollars appropriated for the entire Mutual Security Program are spent within the United States for commodities, shipping, services, machinery, and other items. The remaining 25, spent overseas, substan-tially adds to the power of our allies to purshase with these dollars other needed goods from the United States." Has the State Department unwittingly exposed the real purpose behind foreign aid as being nothing- - but an atrociously disguised means of subsidising our own businesses? Let us reduce this idea to parable form to see the sheer idiocy behind the thinging that it allows our allies "to purchase with these dollars other" needed goods from the United States." Assume I have a hardware store, but because of the poverty JllllllllllllTlllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIItllllllllllltllllllS' I SALT LAKE MASONIC f LODGES MEETINGS f I Mondays - Mt. Moriah No. 2 Progress No. 22 1 Tuesdays - Kaibab No. 25 Argenta No. 3 1 I Thursdays - Acacia No. 17 Friday - Wasatch No. 1 1 llllllllllllllllllllllMllllllllllllllirjrlllll Illllllii more and more and your man- - j aging editor is doing a splendid I job. 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