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Show GRASSROOTS ' Senator Byrd Tries To Save Nation Nine Billion By Wright A. Patterson SENATOR BYRD, Democrat of Virginia, says, and knows, that there can be a cut from the President's Pres-ident's budget, that calls for taxes family or personal interests in order to assist to the utmost in the effort to protect this, their, country against Stalin and his Red army. They fully appreciate living in this land of freedom, liberty and opportunity, op-portunity, but they object to making mak-ing sacrifices so as to pay un-needed un-needed taxes in these inopportune times; they object to financing more TV A enterprises, building more dams to produce more power or more light, v-lien private enterprise enter-prise will provide all we can use; starting new projects such as the St. Lawrence waterway, or continuing contin-uing work upon those that were Started in past years. Those things we can get along without until a more opportune time. That family could not see why they should be called upon to discontinue little Margaret's music lessons, at a time when she was making such magical progress, or why they must stop movies for Margaret and the two boys, or deprive them of ice cream cones or candies, and cut out their weekly week-ly allowance. These expenses, plus the new clothes and new shoes for the children, a new dress for Mother and Dad's annual new suit, must all be sacrificed in order to pay the tax collector, so the government gov-ernment could do things now it could just as well do at some other time. Of course the Dad and Mother ot this . family realize that the $300 they must pay will not all be collected col-lected from them directly. A portion por-tion will be paid indirectly, but directly or indirectly it must be paij In full. The increased wages andi the Increased taxes the manufacturer manu-facturer and processors pay will be Idded to the price of their commodities, com-modities, and members of the families! fam-ilies! pay in the price of what they buji The problem in the case of the 30 million families is that they hate no one to whom they can pass this extra $300 they must pay. Wifther it is paid directly or indirectly, in-directly, it must come out of the farjily budget, and each one of thre 30 million must make drastic sartVifices to pay their $300 that the government may spend nine bil-lio bil-lio on things we could get along wfcjiout at this inopportune time. Tbfy consider the forcing of such saifices unfair, and they vow di.f retribution when election time ceases. Senator Byrd's effort to S3e that nine billion would seem toJbe better politics than that of th President in demanding the sacrifices the paying of that $300 wtild entail on each of the 30 trillion families. I overheard two members of the lcflal American Legion post diseasing dis-easing ways and means of boy-citing boy-citing all motion picture productions produc-tions in which any one or more of t cast were listed as members of t Communist party, or any subversive sub-versive organization. That would be t; laudable move. The most sensl-tie sensl-tie nerve in the picture industry !the box office. May the Legion cept the idea. - Tell congress the kind of legis-Ition legis-Ition you want enacted. i of better than 71 billions of dollars dol-lars in order to pay as we go for our war preparations. Of these more than 71 billions. Senator Byrd proposes to cut more than nine billion, without hampering the defense preparations to the extent ex-tent of a single dollar. He would take out of that budget only those items that call for expenditures on strictly home projects, either those proposed to start, such as the St. Lawrence waterway, or those' for continuing work on projects proj-ects started in previous years, or those new or continuing projects, in this country or abroad, that have no possible connection with our American defense. In the United States there are approximately 30 million families. fami-lies. That Immediately unnecessary unneces-sary nine billion of taxes, means a burden of some $30O as an average for each of those 30 million families. That Is a sizable item In the budget budg-et of the average American family. In adding such an amount to the family expenditures, expendi-tures, adjustments must be made to provide for the on-needed on-needed tax Item. A family of . my acquaintance had a family discussion as to what expense they could cut out in order to provide for ihat additional new tax Item. There are few American families that would not willingly sacrifice |