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Show The Paper That Dares To Take Page 8 The Utah Independent January 2, 1975 BIG GOVERNMENT - INFLATION - Government. Two years ago Congress passed an act giving federal employees a whopping big raise in order to bring salaries of federal employees in line with their counterparts of the private sector (This was the excuse for the raise). Low and behold, it is now revealed that the formula concocted by the federal agency showing salaries in the private sector and in government was way off - in favor of government workers, of course. A few random samples will show the difference in salaries (of the same basic level) in a private sector worker and a government worker. A private sector job that pays S8,500 a year - pays a government worker SI 1.100 and no social security but he does pay 6'? of wages to a retirement fund. A S20.000 private sector worker is S27.000 in government. It has been a fact of life for many years that every more government agency (an average) has about workers than needed. We remember a bet a car salesman had with a lady federal employee several years ago. This fellow said he would give her a car at factory price if they walked into her (government) office and as many as 50'7 of the office staff (some 40 or 50) were working. The lady was going to pay him SI 00 over the normal price if less than one-ha- lf were working. She didnt take the challenge. So, with that kind of inefficiency and with salaries running about one-thir- d higher for government workers, do you wonder why we have rampant inflation, and also why most of us are raking and scraping and working 60 to 80 hours a week to make enough to live on after taxes. Our single largest expense each year is taxes - direct taxes, not hidden taxes that increase the price of an item we purchase, but direct taxes - Income, Social Security. Sales and Ad Valorem, in that order. Until Big Labor and Big Government can be brought under control, dont expect to do too much about the economy or inflation. The government may speed up the printing presses in the Treasury Department, but this will only give a temporary reprieve and make the final blow even worse. We believe it would be much better to start taking our medicine now and begin correcting some of the fallacies that so clearly violate every law of good economy than doing a pump priming job that will only delay the fatal day. -- The Oglethorpe Echo Oglethorpe. Georgia - one-four- TAX th lhe again. Senate is at it In an action that required one sentence in the l.i.S. Congressional Record, it approved, without a word of debate and by a voice vote. African SI 5 million for an Development Fund. Several years ago, African nations got together and established an African Development Bank, of. by. and for Africans. The United States, for a change, was not allowed to participate. The Africans said, in effect, we don't need you. But money for the bank didnt come gushing in so here comes Uncle Sucker to the rescue with 15 million as a start for the development fund. The bill has not yet surfaced in the House but when it does the taxpayers can be assured it wont be approved without debate and a record vote. Cong. H.R. Gross Iowa) - the employment, products and services that make the United States what it is today. Not long ago, Mr. Robert Sobel, writing m a dispatch of Post Service, discussed how the Los Angeles the decline in the stock market of the last year or so affects 3 1 million Americans and how ultimately the country will be affected. He observed: Twenty years ago the talk at cocktail parties was of dividends and sound common stocks. Ten years later one heard much of new issues, growth situations and developing technologies, of small companies started by MIT professors in garages, that would be tomorrows IBM. Nowadays the talk is of gold . . . commercial paper, certificates of deposit, jewelry and art as investments, and Swiss bank even as accounts. There is hardly a word about stocks enterprises that provide Times-Washingt- on - dividend payers. In other words, the backbone of the capital formation the great body of middleclass Americans has been process discouraged by the mismanagement of the nations economy endless attacks on business, on profits and the inroads of the tax collector on such things as capital gains. The emphasis today, as Mr. Sobel observes, is not on investing in t0T" -- rows opportunity, but in hedging against todays inflation. There must be a rejuvenation of investor confidence, or we will all face a desolate future. -- Middletown Transcript Middletown, Deleware ever-increasi- ng ANBODY HOME? TOO YOUNG TO DIE! If you want to find your Senator these days, it appears EXPOSE YOUR FRIENDS to the Utah Independent 20 Assorted Back Issues for ONLY $1.00 SEMINAR STRIKE After World War 11, the expression peoples capitalism was frequently used to describe the fundamental nature of the a system in which a great middle class American system of American citizens provided the investment dollars to build the backbone of U.S. productivity. These average Americans became a major source of the investment capital that developed new industries, expanded old ones and contributed to a steadily rising standard of living. Millions of people came to own bonds and shares of stock in the oil industry, the utility industry, the transportation industry, and all the other STOP ABORTION I'M Stand POISONING PEOPLES CAPITALISM UNCLE SUCKER AGAIN Last week, this column contained the first reason for Big Labor. rampant inflation This week, the second step will be discussed briefly - Big A featuring William L. DREXLER Marvin L. COOLEY and JAN. 18, 1975 - Dallas Texas Holiday Inn Central - 4070 N. Central that the last place to look would be the United States Senate. The Wall Street Journal reports that out of a total of 100, 44 Senators failed to vote on vital energy legislation in 1973. Important appropriations bills have passed with less than half of the Senators voting. The main reason so many Senators are not around is that they are making extra money on speaking tours, with the price of their silvery tongues ranging anywhere from S500 to S2,500 per appearance. In 1973, some Senators earned more than S60.000 exercising their speaking talents. Legislation has been proposed which would limit the size of speaking fees and the amount that could be earned through this oratorical moonlighting in any one year. So far, the legislation has not passed. To be honest, it hardly seems likely that it will. For those of you wishing to see your Senator, it would be best to wire ahead and let him know you are coming - otherwise he might not be in town. -- X-w- ay 35- - Middletown Transcript Middletown , Deleware Fee: $25.00 Wives accompanied by husbands admitted free. IRS tyranny; how LEARN how millions of your friends are successfully resisting obedience to the law of the land will bring on the demise of the IRS and put NOTICE an end to confiscatory taxation. One Texas farmer saved almost $9,000 in taxes seminar. after one Cooley-Drexler 35- - HOWELL C. WILLIS Citizens For Constitutional Compliance 3332 San Marcus Ave. Dallas , Texas 75228 AGENCY, 30 East Kensington Ave Salt Lake City, Utah The Phyllis Schlafly Report Continued from page 7 Congress to the State Legislatures. The U.S. President has no part in the procedure. He cannot sign the amendment, and he cannot veto it. The same is true for the Governor of each of the States. To put it bluntly, a constitutional amendment is none of their business. Every U.S. citizen is, of course, entitled to his opinion. But it is improper of the President or any Governor to use the funds, power, and prestige of his office to interfere in the amending process. With all the power that has moved from the legislative to the executive branch in recent years, legislators would he unwise to give up their last area of sole jurisdiction. Yet, President Ford has just appointed a new woman to his White House staff who has announced that her principal objective will he to push for ratification of the ERA. Thi s means that Federal salary and expense money will he spent to push ratification of ERA, which is essentially a grab for power at the Federal level and will result in a hoard of new Federal bureaucrats to implement it through affirmative action and reverse discrimination. 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