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Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT Readers Outlook GOVERNMENTAL WAGE AND PRICE FIXING (Continued from Page 3) Your comments make one By Congressman John G. Schmitz By people who ought to know quality deterioration , must re- better, I mean those with no per- duce and disrupt production and sonal or ideological interest in distort the balance and structure ofproduction. . . higger, more socialistic governWhen the price of one item , ment. This trend is reflected to some say some necessity such as bread extent in my mail. Constituents or milk, is held below the price write saying, in effect, that if that supply and demand would other policies set in a free market , it reduces the don't succeed soon, we may have comparative profit margin in to resort to price and wage conmiking that product and soon trols as the lesser of evils. The creates a shortage of wheat proimplication is that such controls, duct. This is exactly the ooposite though a drastic change in policy, result from the one the governmeans of guarantee-in- g ment price-fixer-s htid in mind. If are a sure-fir- e the availability of cheaper in the effort to cure this , the government tries to hold down goods to consumers. But in fact they are nothing of the prices of the labor , raw materithe sort. In peacetime governals, and other factors that go into mental price and wage fixing producing the never works in a free country; and product , the price control must even in time of war, when be extended in patriotic fevor does what fear of circles , until the government penalties cannot do in bringing finds itself trying to fix the price about compliance, government-fixe- d of everything. As there are probably at least prices are always accompanied by severe shortages of the 10 million separate prices in the goods. Chronic American economy, and as this shortages are the hallmark of implies something on the order of 50 trillion every controlled economy. In his recent book Man Versus among prices, the government the Welfare State , the noted econsets itself a fantastically imposomist Henry Haslitt explains why sible task. But this does not mean thisistrue: it cannot do immense harm to the when it nevertheless unAttempts to hold down or roll economy back prices , when they do not dertakes this task. Therefore we are not simply merely lead to black markets and anti-inflationa- ry price-controlle- all-o- price-controll- February 25, 1971 Page 9 ut d ever-wideni- ng ed cross-relationshi- ps making a choice between big government and inflation when we consider adopting governmental price and wage fixing. In that case we are also choosing scarcity over abundance. Governmental price and wage fixing can never cure inflation, because it is aimed only at the symptoms of the disease, not at the cause. There are three good ways to get at the cause: (1) eliminate the huge annual Federal deficit, every dollar of which is 100 per cent inflationary; (2) move toward restoring the gold backing of all our money, made meaningful by once again allowing private citizens to own monetary gold; (3) curb the excessive powers and special legal privileges now given to labor unions, which enable them to demand and obtain infla- tionary wage increases. These three courses of action against inflation, and legislation to implement the, have a high priority in my legislative program for the new session of Congress just beginning. wonder how much experience you have had with driver has been a great boon, in my judgement or with the multiplying tragedies in our divorce courts, much of it from train-ing-whi- young marriages. I certainly disagree with you. Signature unintelligible Editor's Note: Driver education in the public schools has hardly been worth the cost and may now cost more. There is very little driving experience actually gained by the students in this program (ask any student). Highway accidents and deaths to same have continued to increase yearC oitinued from Page 2 ly. Rarely are accidents caused by the fact that a person did not free men. The majority we have been electing think they know how to drive. This is have the ability to do that which even God does not do, socialist program that, once that is, force us to fit into their mold. The proper function in, can never be eradicated beof government is to protect individuals in their rights. Any- cause people begin to think of it thing more than this is a power we the people have not as the American way of life. As far as government counconferred on them and is something they have assumed or seling persons under 21 who are usurped. contemplating marriage, or those The Lord be to look down Editors Outlook (cont) an-'oth- might perfectly right today on our governments both state and national and say as He did in times past, Let My People Go. We are not far from the totalitarian state we profess to abhor. Without doubt, if we have further representation similar to what we have had over the past 35 years, in retrospect and by com- parison, the taxation without representation of our fathers will appear as the epitome of freedom. fore- without the counsel of government). JOHNNY LEARN TO READ WORLD COMMONWEALTH LEAGUE invites social, you to join. the fastest growing recreational and cultural organization. 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