Show Where the Taxes axes Come From By RAYMOND PITCAIRN N National Chairman Sentinels of 01 the Republic Taxes are paid in the sweat ear of every everyman everyman everyman man who labors Congress as this Is written n Is 15 be beginning beginning beginning be- be ginning to remember that profound truth truth and and to realize that the public remembers It too Therein lies a n headache not headache not only for Congress but for all other officers of government go whether national state or local who have spent the peoples people's money at such amazing speed during recent years The trouble Is that In proportion to public expenditures there are fewer earnings for the tax-collectors tax to levy on than there were lets let's say flay a decade ago Recently published figures have brought this fact dramatically to the taxpayers taxpayer's attention They show for example that whereas In 1929 1939 taxes took one eighth of the national income In Income income in- in come which means the earnings of all the people by 1932 they took sixth one-sixth and by 1935 more than one Or put it another way In 1928 the average American labored one day out of ot every eight to pay the costs of ot national state and local government In 1932 he labored one day out of every six for the same purpose and in 1935 one day and ADd a afew few hours oven over out of every five Yet even that didn't meet the whole cost If It government last year had paid all its bills bUb In cash cosh nearly third one-third of all the money earned by the American people would have been required to balance the ac- ac ac C- C count Instead government borrowed borrowed borrowed bor bor- rowed which means that the bill biU must be paid out of future earnings of the workers or their children- children still In the sweat of the man who labors Today the politicians are searching searchIng searching search- search Ing feverishly for a method of producing pro during taxes without the Inevitable sweat They find It a difficult Job Perhaps they are approaching it at atthe atthe atthe the wrong end If It they want to make things easier for the people who ultimately pay the bills why not turn their thoughts though to the problem of ot spending fewer billions rather than to the question of ot how to collect collect col col- collect lect more mores |