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Show 1963 a typical firm had tc handle more than 2,700 different differ-ent types of forms to be fillec out for the various agencies ol the local, state and federa governments. "It is obvious," said Rep Poff, "that many of thes (government) agencies not on ly do not V.now the cost to thi public in filling out form aftei form, but they do not want t know." Thomas Fuller once said "Penny and penny, laid up will be many." Americans havi now laid up over 48 billion dol lars in U.S. Savings Bonds an all-time record. Red tape costs public plenty "The Internal Revenue Service Ser-vice is the world's largest paperwork pa-perwork agency, annually processing pro-cessing more than 400 million tax forms," said Rep. Richard Poff (R-Va.). "Each year it costs industry and the public $20 billion to complete government govern-ment reports, and it costs the taxpayer an additional $7 billion bil-lion to underwrite the cost of the federal government by processing pro-cessing its own paper work." Rep. Poff added that during |