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Show "There still are people who can remember when the cost of high living was lower than the present high cost of living." liv-ing." Dan Bennett. It's Your Money And Mine ... The Portland Oregonian prints a letter from a reader which offers an interesting suggestion. He proposes that we stop the "silly practice" of referring to the financing of projects with "government money" mo-ney" of "Federal funds" as though is was manna from heaven." Instead, he thinks, we should start calling such financing by its right name that is "your money" or "taxpayers' funds." There is a world of merit in this idea. A great many people, apparently, don't relate "Federal "Fede-ral funds" or "government money" mo-ney" to the state of their own pocketbooks. They don't realize that every cent must be paid one way or another by the taxpayers tax-payers of today and generations genera-tions to come. And that term "taxpayers" includes everyone in the country. Even people in so low an income bracket that they pay no direct taxes, must pay hidden taxes every time they buy an article of a service. ser-vice. The widespread use of such a term as "your money" would be a tremendous help in correcting cor-recting this sad situation. We'd think twice if we really understood under-stood that we must pay-a part of the cost of everything government gov-ernment does whereas now we only think once or don't think at all. At any rate, keep it in mind next time you read about government gov-ernment spending. It's "your money" billions upon billions upon billions of it, collected in taxes. |