Show Voters Must lust Control Taxation In 1927 the major departments commissions and bureaus of the Federal government cost the taxpayers taxpayers tax tax- p payers In the 1932 fiscal year they cost an O-an O an increase of 63 per cent The cost of one department department department depart depart- ment increased per cent in that that- time time another another jumped per cent two cent two others went up per cent and per cent The most amazing phase of thus thusis is that we were in a far better position to pay in 1927 1921 than in 1932 Those boom days when extravagance extravagance extravagance ex ex- ex- ex exI I was taken almost asa as asa asa a matter of off course In the last three years business and individuals als have hove been forced to cut costs and adjust outgo to reduced in In- come Only the governmental departments de- de departments departments de de- and commissions and bureaus and whatnots have demanded demanded de de- de- de that an unending stream of dollars be ready for them to spend The meaning of all this should be clear enough by now We face the specter of tax bankruptcy We Ve Weare Weare are experiencing a tax policy that thatis is f forcing money into tax-free tax bonds throttling business and is creating cresting unemployment and dis dIs- dis- dis tress Government extravagance and waste strike deep into every pocketbook There is but one solution solution solution-dras- dras drastic tic cuts in the cost of government There Is but one instrument for tor achieving that the that the demand of the people who pay the taxes and cast the votes Theirs is the final word Until that word is spoken emphatically emphatically at the polls the economic future of America must remain clouded by doubt 1 The above is taken from the Industrial News Review which is sent free to newspaper editors in the hope that they will use it I The Review generally contains a few good general articles like lUte the above The rest of It is devoted devoted devoted de de- de- de voted to pleas for special inter inter- ests Of course reduction in federal taxes means more to the big in interests Interests interests In- In than it does to th little fellow The big interests pay their taxes directly The little fellow pays them indirectly What hat the little fellow ought to insist upon is reduction less national national national na na- extravagance and more federal interest and money for the many U things ings the common people need Foremost among them now now- is food and clothing Next would come a place in the he Presidents President's cabinet for a secretary of Education I tion Uon whose duty it would be to I create equal educational I Rural education would be benefited thereby The cost of I adequate education is too great for the average rural school district district district dis dis- dis- dis I to pay Rural education therefore has become inferior Rural children are entitled to the benefits of education as os much is the children of the larger cit cit- cit cit- ies Yes control taxation and get the benefits I I |