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Show FROM HERE TO THE MOON The Hoover Commission found that there were some 4,700 different forms or questionnaires ques-tionnaires imposed upon private pri-vate citizens or business concerns con-cerns and that the cost for clerical cler-ical help, accounting, legal and other expenses ran into hundreds hun-dreds of millions of dollars annually, an-nually, not to mention the cost to the government of handling the documents. The commission study revealed re-vealed that a large number of reports were required of industry indus-try by a government agency when the information was already al-ready available in another nearby near-by agency, and that a great quantity of records were required re-quired from industry which were not used. Last year 938,000 persons (income tax payers) were required re-quired to file a formal report saying they had nothing to report re-port (their salary was unchanged unchang-ed from the estimate). These reports are only a part of the 25 billion pieces of paper created and handled by the federal government each year. Laid end to end they would reach from the earth to the moon 13 times. |