Show More oie Taxes Taxes Taxes- Or Less Spending By llA RAYMOND Yi PITCAIRN National Chairman Sentinels ol o othe the Republic News dispatches irom Washington Washing Washing- ton report that growing numbers of Congressmen largely hugely from the agricultural agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural districts are announcing their determination to stem the tide of rising taxes From the same source come re reports reports reports re- re ports of mounting living costs Probably the one statement explains explains ex ex- ex- ex plains the other For as the protesting protesting protesting pro pro- testing Congressmen realize high cost of or government and hi hight h cost of living arc indissolubly linked They rise or fall taU together And both lc levy their heavy toll at the same source the the Income and savings of ot the American worker and earner How can that toll be reduced Advocates tes of a lighter burden of taxation offer the obvious answer answer answer an an- Reduce duce government expendi expendi- tures Backed by official statistics they point out that even though more tax money Is pouring into the Federal coffers than in earlier years o outgo still exceeds income Cut the outgo they insist and taxes will not have to be increased They may even be lessened thus hastening the progress of recovery and widespread re The American people p ople are doing their part by plying paying taxes which directly or indirectly cut deeply into every workers worker's pay envelope and every housewife's budget It is not too much to ask that their representatives at Washington do their part too by eliminating unnecessary extravagance even though political Jobholders and political futures be endangered inthe in inthe inthe the pro process ess There seems in hi fact no other choice As a member of the Senate Finance Committee recently reminded remind remind- ed his colleagues It will be Imperative that we Impose Im urn- pose heavier taxes 1 if we do not cut down expenditures like the Senator the workers and earners of America know from bitter experience on whom those taxes boxes will fall taU |