Show THE MOUNTING COST WHEN v HEN figures showing governmental exI expenses expenses ex- ex I are presented in effect effective ve array anyone is bound to ask himself What is wrong with this picture Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island did a lot lotof lotof lotof of figuring and found that in seventeen years since 1913 the cost of government in these United States has increased per cent while the earning power of the people has increased in increased increased in- in creased by less than half that percentage During that same period the total expenditures expenditures altures of all governmental agencies in increased increased increased in- in creased from three billion to fourteen billion dollars The really alarming thing about this is not the fact that four and a half times as much money is being spent says Senator Metcalf but the fact that expenditures have increased more than twice as fast as the combined earnings and income of the American American American Amer Amer- ican people Upon the same authority all branches of government in this country are supporting either wholly or in part ten million people seventh One-seventh of the adult population of the country supported wholly or partially by taxa tax tax- a It is quite a sick picture picture paternalism paternalism crossed with federal interference state ac activities activities activities ac- ac bound up with county and city enterprises enterprises enterprises enter enter- lines crossed and double-crossed double by an army of public servants If the people continue to Insist upon being governed regulated controlled prohibited taxed and overtaxed there is no telling how soon the day shall arrive when instead of six supporting one each citizen citizen citizen citi citi- zen will be supporting some other adult in some branch of government service |