Show do you want to cut your fei fet erni eral taxes your washed I 1 aw axes no reasonable main questions the red seed for taxes to pay the cost of governmental services everyone should be he willing to pay a fair hare share of his hi income tor for that pur pose but nobody wants to underwrite extravagance in the home la in business or in government the partisan bipartisan bi commission on organization of the executive branch of the government created by congress with the approval of president truman and headed by former omer president hoover has ha provided a chart for the elimination of governments governmental extravagance extravagant and wate waste this pait past year because ot duplication li and overlapping in the armed service services we wasted about one billion dollar dollars out of the fifteen billion spent for national security in 1948 two ag agencies eccles planned to build the same dam in nearly the sanae earna place at hella hells canyon idaho each let list of plans coat coal about the plans differed by approximately 76 75 million dollar dollars in estimated cost of erection iov costs the post office department part ment two and a half cents to print and deliver a penny post card the veterans administration at the time of the thi commissions Commission 1 survey had empty beds in its hospitals yet VA and other government agencies have planned or are building additional hospitals at a cost of over a billion dollars when 64 0 of the available beds are an not now occupied this is alice in wonderland it takes more than io worth of or paper work to complete a governmental purchase order F for or example by the time the necessary paper nork ork is completed a 50 typewriter ribbon costs the taxpayer about 10 turnover of labor is recognized by all industry as expensive yet in the federal government labor turnover runs about 25 per cent a rate much higher than any private business could stand this means that every year approximately either leave or enter a government job the personnel system is clogged with red tape the best beat men leave because of the low pay scale and the inefficient cannot easily be discharged if enacted into law the commission recommendation t to 0 remedy these and other defects in conducting our federal business bu ainess would save bays the taxpayer three to four billion dollars a year to pay play your pan part in putting a atop a t op to this wasteful extravagance join the nonpartisan non partisan citizens committee which is working for the enactment of the commissions suggestions write to the citizens committee for or reorganization of the executive branch of the government ern ment 1421 chestnut street philadelphia 2 pennsylvania write your congressman inform your self about the commission report tell your neighbors neighbor sl |