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Show YOU OWE $2,000 You, the average citizen, are in debt $2,000. So is youur wife. So are each of your children and all other relatives. So is everyone else in the country. A part of this debt you know about. You contracted it as a personal obligation. It's entirely your responsibility. Eut another, and larger part, was contracted for you. The chances are that you don't even realize you owe it, no one is dunning you for payment, pay-ment, and aren't so much as paying pay-ing the interest directly. This latter is the public debt, which composes a substantial proportion pro-portion of a total national debt in excess of $200,000,000,000. It's been growing at an accelerated rate during and since the war. You've permitted it to grow. You and your fellow citizens weren't sufficiently Interested in government govern-ment work for policies standing for economy and efficiency. Or you voted for measures that increased in-creased the debt because it was easy to do, and didn't seem to affect af-fect you financially at all. As a result we are paying one of the highest tax rates in history. Millions of our dollars go yearly to meet the interest on debt we permitted government to contract for us. Billions will be required to retire the public bonds we gave our debtors in exchange for their money. And every business, every individual, feels the burden. Do your part, as a voter and taxpayer, to reduce the national debt, by opposing projects which would increase it. |