Show A GUEST ST EaT EDITORS EDITORIAL O AL IAL There are people in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington who want to add more millions of dollars to the vast amounts of taxpayers taxpayers taxpayers' taxpayers taxpayers' tax tax- payers' payers money already being spent on consumerism Nearly civil service service service ser ser- ser ser- vice employees are already work working i ng in eight t major majors majors' s' s consumer service ser sere vice agencies Thousands of others are being paid by the thousand thousand thou thou- sand or so soother soother soother other run government tax tax- sponsored payer-sponsored consumer consumer- met met- related programs Now Congress is considering considering considering consid consid- ering bills to lo set sel up a II super co consumer ns u mer agency tax agency tax financed that financed that would monitor monitor monitor moni moni- tor and litigate with other offices of government in social and economic economic matters This is not fair to those government workers who are doing a good job now I t. t f protecting consumers Its It's not fair to consumers either cither Because the new agency advocates the interests interests interests inter inter- ests of one group of citizens it must oppose the interests of other groups and many people may find themselves in both camps What's more some consumers will want lower product prices others m mOre mare re durability or some other factor The agency would have to choose between between between be be- tween competing consumer interests protecting some consumers at the expense of others Primarily however the new agency seems unfair to taxpayers who will be paying paying paying pay pay- ing to have the government do the same job twice Taxpayers are consumers of government services Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps we need tome Some ome sort of watchdog agency to see what were we're getting for our money in that market fl i a t Il 1 I I j y I I 1 u |