Show They Are Your Dimes DimesA A A good thing to remember says the Abilene Kansas Dally Daily Reflector In these days of all kinds of federal aids' aids Is that the federal federa government hasn't got a dime that it doesn't take away from the people so it cant can't give anything to a school system building program program pro pro- gram county welfare flood control crop or anything else without first having taken it away from the people In this gigantic federal process of taking and giving a large chunk of the local taxpayers taxpayer's dollar goes to support the bureaucracy which provides give away services that In most cases could be better handled locally In the first place Moreover the money that thatIs Is taken from the people and returned In part under the guise 01 of federal aid Is to a large extent extracted from the taxpayers in in- directly The next time you hear the political cry for a higher tax on ona ona ona a business or an Industry you should remember that the latter are like government too In one respect They have no money except what they tl ey take from consumers In payment for products or services Their profits are either regulated by law or by competition When additional additional additional ad ad- taxes are levied against them they are forced to become collection collection col col- lection agencies for government The taxes are passed along to their customers The old saying that you cant can't get something for nothing is still true even though many of us act like we dont don't believe it |