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Show Voters Must Control Taxation j In 1927 the major departments, commissions and bureaus bu-reaus of the Federal government cost the taxpayers $1,964,-000,000. $1,964,-000,000. In the 1932 fiscal year they cost $3,195,100,000 an increase in-crease of 03 per cent. The cost of one department increased 220 per cent in that time another jumped 117 per cent two others went up 113 per cent and 10G per cent, respectively- The most amazing phase of this is that we are in a far better position to pay in 1927 than in 1932. Those were boom days, when extravagance was taken almost as a matter mat-ter of course. In the last three years businesses and individuals indi-viduals have been forced to cut costs and adjust outgo to reduced re-duced income. Only the governmental departments and commissions and bureaus and vhatnots have demanded that an unending stream of dollars be ready for them to spend. The meaning of all this should be clear enough by now. We face the specter of tax bankruptcy. We are experiencing a tax policy that is forcing money into tax-free bonds, throttling throt-tling business and creating unemployment and distress. Goverment extravagance and waste strike deep into every pocketbook. There is but one solution drastic cuts in the cost of government. There is but one instrument for achieving that the demand of the people, who pay the taxes and cast the votes. Theis is the final word. Until that word is spoken emphatically at the polls, the ecoomic future of America must remain clouded by doubt. |