Show Jobs or Taxes Ameri American n business as the Manu l Manufacturers Record recent recently observed cannot continue to supply both wages and taxes in the amounts demanded It is becoming a matter of which shall ahall it be n be a job or some morp dollars for the tha th public treasury Government has apparently not learned a fact which if of the ut- ut utmost Utmost ut utmost most obviousness ss to the rest of us that that every dollar taken in taxes means means that business must pare a dollar from other expenses In a great at many businesses the parin paring must bo be done principally in the wage wac budgets either cither through h do- do decreased de decreased creased compensations or fewer jobs At the moment the entire re- re re resources sources of the government arc are be- be being be being ing J given en to providing more moro jobs at better wages This is being done through the lar largest arest est public works program in our history It Itis Itis Itis is bein being done through a ari r ments within industries and through h official cial dal fiat It is bein being done through h appeals to patriotism and senti sent sentiment sentiment ment All of this effort will be vain without tax relief After nil all the rno most t willin willing business in the world cant can't nt raise wa wages ES E'S when it hasn't the mone money in the bank Both the practical and psychological psychological ical effects of a 1 decisive policy of governmental economy would be unimaginably great It would give ive investors new w hope mana managements new spirit It would be at once re- re reflected re reflected in increased production higher buying power and jobs Every branch of cov federal state count county and city city- city has been at fault every branch must do its part if real tax redic- redic red reduction c- c tion is to be obtained |