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Show Better Standard Of Living Predicted Beardsley Ruml, author of the Pay-as-you-go Tax Plan, which was widely forecast as a simplification simpli-fication of the matter of making income tax returns, predicts a post-war living standard probably forty percent higher than the prewar pre-war era. The New York financier expects some confusion1 in the reconversion reconver-sion period but says that afterwards after-wards we can look for a higher standard of living and for an employment em-ployment picture different from anything we have ever seen before. be-fore. He adds that higher average aver-age weekly earnings will be necessary nec-essary to maintain the higher living liv-ing standards. Mr. Ruml expresses the opinion that the Government's war-time controls have been "remarkably successful" and suggests that they should be gradually, not abruptly, relaxed at the end of the .war. He thinks the nation should attempt to maintain postwar prices at approximately ap-proximately current levels in order or-der to prevent chaotic economic conditions. |