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Show Utah Taxpayers Assn. comments on pie in the sky platforms obsolete document . . . He favors fa-vors curtailing big business . . . He upholds compulsory unionism un-ionism . . . He champions subversives sub-versives . : . He congratulates the Supreme Court when it rules in favor of Communism. "Washington Exclusive" tells of an old trick used by the Eskimos to protect themselves against marauding wolf packs. They imbed handles of razor sharp knives in the jce and smear them with seal blood. Thus attracted trie wolves lick the blades, eagerly, cut their tongues and are overjoyed at the seemingly inexaustable supply sup-ply of nourishing blood they can lick off the knives. I Party platforms are inclined to make promises of lush grants and gifts to every segment seg-ment of society. Promises of greater security for all are applauded. ap-plauded. Little attention is given to the responsibilities of the individual citizen to support sup-port the government and not be supported by it .according to , Utah Taxpayer Assn., a non-profit tax study group. An abundance of "pie in the sky" 1 was promised with little discussion of necessary tax in-creaes in-creaes to pay the costs thereof. there-of. What we need is responsible respon-sible government, not government govern-ment responsive to every unsound un-sound demand of every pressure pres-sure group, it stated. New programs, as set forth by the Democratic platform according to U. S. News, will add $11.9 billion to the federal budget. Then, if social security program increases which are outside the budget, are included includ-ed $3.3 billions would be added or a grand total of $15.2 billions. bil-lions. Where do we go from here ? Ed Murrow remarked at the Democratic Convention, "It seems that the platform emphasizes em-phasizes a great variety of rights but made no mention of duties and responsibilities." We must remember that there is no right without a corresponding corres-ponding responsibility. Every gift and grant must be paid for by taxes along with controls con-trols and less freedom. A liberal, according to Rev. Juniper B. Carroll O.F.M., an important Catholic Prelate, is one who favors bigger government govern-ment at the expense of individual indi-vidual freedom. Thus he views with satisfaction the Federal Government's increasing intrusion intru-sion in private affairs. He unhesitatingly un-hesitatingly endorses all "welfare" "wel-fare" legislation . . . He regards re-gards the Constitution as an |