| Show Tax Commission Proposes Budget For Rearmament A CHICAGO A year dollar rearmament program for the United States which would not cost tax tax- taxpayers taxpayers taxpayers payers a red cent now or in the future is the prospect held out by bythe bythe bythe the National Consumers Tax com com- mission In a message to the quarter mil lion members in 45 states Mrs Mel Mel- Melville yule ville Mucklestone president declared that if our local govern govern- governments governments governments ments would eliminate inefficiency and waste from the administration of their affairs American taxpayers ers would be saved a sum so large that it would more than offset the to be raised annually through the national defense act which went Into effect July 1 I. This seemingly true too solution to a large part of the de de- defense defense de- de defense problem is an actual possibility ty Mrs Mucklestone said for the simple reason that the local taxpayer er en is the same one who foots the national tax bill and therefore costs of defense measures Experts agree that making our city town county and other local governmental units thoroughly ef efficient cf- cf and honest would cut from 10 to 20 per cent from our total lo local lo- lo local local cal tax bill the leader de de- declared dared without curtailing essential governmental services |
