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Show YOUIt "DEBT CERTIFICATES" GROW The old saw about it being the woman who pays should be modernized. The one who pays and pays today is the taxpayer, male or female. According to the United States News, every American citizen man, woman and child at the close of 1932, had been obligated with a tax debt of $314.22 by the various units of government managing public affairs. This tax burden is growing at an alarming rate and in another year the interest biJl alone will probably be about $2,000,000,000 annually. The sources of tax money are limited. It must come out of earnings of property and earnings through tazation, is driving money into tax-free government bonds and preventing pre-venting investments and developments that would create more jobs, larger payrolls and greater income. The people should get this idea clearly in their-reads: Every tax dollar expended is a dollar taken from the earnings earn-ings of private citizens and private industries. Don't be misled by the idea that government money is any difi'erent from! your money. It is your money. You are the government. The government has no source of securing revenue except from you. Every last penny of government expenditures is raised by taxation; it comes out of your pocket either in direct taxes or through indirect indir-ect taxes collected in higher prices for food, clothing, rent, fuel, tobacco, amusements and everything you eat, wear or cnioy. Every family of four, at the close of 1932, owed $1,-256.88 $1,-256.88 on government promises to pay "debt certificates" drawing interest.. Are you interested in government taxation jobs bread and butter? Think it over! |