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Show This Is Also Our Business . the Cencus Bureau. This is 700,000 or 10 more than the 6,400,000 employed in 1950. Right now the upward trend must be reversed all along the line. A report from ttio VUih Ta-pivvei-M AsstH-iiitlon. it non-profit tjv-Nlul.V organization with offices tit 211 Korns Building, Salt IjiJie city. President Eisenhower's first bud-pet bud-pet just given to Congress totals $05.6 billion of which Utah's share is 52:10,000,000. Tho proposed budget bud-get is $13 billion under Mr. Truman's Tru-man's of J7S.6 billion presented iust one year ago and is $5.4 bill-lion bill-lion under the estimated expenditures expendi-tures of $70.9 billion for this year. Even with the big cuts made, it is estimated that the revenues' will lie $2.9 billion short of balancing the budget. Deficit financing, except ex-cept in time of war or great emergency, emer-gency, should not be tolerated or permitted. 'We submit the follow-ing follow-ing 4 point program as essential. 1. A balanced budget even with current tax cuts should and must be achieved in fiscal 1955. Mr. Cou-dert Cou-dert has pointed the way with a sound, sensible, workable plan for achieving this great objective of "Limiting expenditures to estimated estimat-ed receipts." Under H R. 2, this would be an accomplished fact. As Mr. Coudert so aptly said, "It means simply that the government like the taxpayer would have to ' live within its means." We strongly strong-ly urge the adoption of this measure meas-ure as just good prudent common sense. This is in complete conformity conform-ity with our own accepted principles. princi-ples. 2. Expenditure control through annual Congressional control over expenditures. Sen. Byrd's S. Con. Res. 8 and the McClellan-Culmer H. R. 1710 provide for the implementing imple-menting of this important objective. object-ive. There can be no permanent solution to the federal expenditure problem until Congress regains annual an-nual control over spending by thus improving the appropriation processes. pro-cesses. Wo aro heartily in favor of the measures mentioned. 3. Governmental reorganization Committees and task forces, for the second Hoover Study, are now largely appointed. The occomplish-ments occomplish-ments of the first committee are epoch making but there are other fertile fields of study which give promise of even greater yields in better and more efficient governments. govern-ments. This is particularly tine in the area of Inter-governmental relations. re-lations. The present hodge-podge of inconsistencies and irrational appropriations, ap-propriations, without rhyme or rea son, should be entirely overhauled and rebuilt on a logical basis of recognized sound principles free from pork, pap and pressure politics. poli-tics. 4. Debt retirement. We believe the time has come for long-range planning for the reduction of the public debt of $275 billion and that any measure to raise the current limits should be vigorously resisted. resist-ed. Our program is: "No debt in excess of the. taxes (revenue) of the current year shall be allowed." The only exception would be war or grave emergency. We saved $45,000,000. That is Utah's share of the $13 billion cut in . the Federal budget made by Congress in 1953. As it was, we still paid around $240,000,000 In federal taxes last year or .35 of $68 billion. bil-lion. This is nearly 22 times as much as we paid for all our state and local government, including schools. Favorable Straws During the past year automobiles for federal agencies were cut from 62,032 to 54,977 or 7,055. This is an 11 cut. It is a good stall. Federal-civilian employment during dur-ing the past vear has been cut 148,-122 148,-122 or from '2,599,122 to 2,451,000 This is 6. More cuts are promised. prom-ised. Economists at their annual meeting meet-ing held in Washington early in January generally agreed that there would be a recession of around 5 during the year in the "gross national product." Taxes will be harder to pay. This calls for budget reductions. The music program of the armed services was cut from 327 bands down to 250. Even then the cost was still big business $60,000,000 worth. "We must have the courage to stand against undue governmental paternalism and the cowardly cry that 'the world owes me a living.' Nobody owes anything for crops we do not grow, goods we do not produce, or work we do not do."- Secretary Benson. "When the righteous are in authority, auth-ority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked bearith rule, the people mourn." Proverbs 29:2. Public employment in October 1953 totaled 7,100,000, according to |