Show af AA IT 1 O MV IVl A Hy Joseph H. Roberts U. amendment The only way the taxpayers tion is going to succeed is for the people to clamor as loudly for cuts In govern- ment spending as they do for ower tax- federal government stops spending ing me Unless and until inflation is tax cuts will mean only temporary relief at These are the facts of economic Don't let anybody tell the fight against government spending cannot be left up to our elected They are not used to counting pennies as we and when good ideas come along they tend to forget the costs In their enthusiasm for the We are going to have to be con- on the alert to help them avoid pushing us further in debt in support of projects we can do A good example of what I'm talking about is the Constitutional amendment give the residents of the right to send to the U.S. Congress two Senators and one or two The measure has already been approved by so the pro- have seven years in which to persuade 38 sUte legislatures to ratify I doubt that any of the Congressmen who approved of the bill even bothered to ask how much this power grab by the Eastern liberals would cost In I doubt that anybody in Congress would want us to know Just how much it ac- to keep them in office I for a We know to know it amounts to a goodly There isn't only the annual salary of which is SOmewhat more than taxpayer but there are expense staff stamps and stationary all tree goodies they have provided and the costly trips they take at our ex- Then add in the costs of pro- viding them with offices and ad- All in it must cost us taxpayers a princely sum I use the term to support our Congressmen in the manner to which they have grown There is no real justification for ad- ding three or four high-priced Con- gressmen to the number we are already If the disen- franchised citizens in our nation's capitol feel like let them move to Maryland or Better let Congress cede the part of the District that belonged to There is no longer any valid reason for keeping the District of Col- separate from the So long as the government retains authority over its buildings and which it does everywhere it has built it's not Important who owns the rest of the Let Maryland have it and good What we be demanding ls a Constitutional amendment that will cut the total membership of the Congress rather than add to it Why should the states send Senators and Representatives to the Congress when we could do just as well-probably ami ju Rut I guess I'm being gressmen are no more approve an amendment that would the number of U Uy hold than would pay cut Z n cai The best we can hope for now is our state legislators will vole down the amendment that would give the city of Washington the status of a state and cost us taxpayer about half a million more each |