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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand November 27, 1975 The Utah Independent Page NATURE'S GREATEST GIFTS CLICHES OF SOCIALISM tor Foundation MARILYN MANION Education, we had no social security, many people would go hungry. If NO ENDING TO SPENDING? The Federal budget for next year may hover around $423 billion. Broken down into understandable this means that Federal government language, the would be spending nearly $2,000 per year per person living in the U.S. or $8,000 per a family of four. More than half of it will be spent on human resources, a bit over a fourth on national defense. Ronald Reagan, in a September 26 address to the Executive Club of Chicago, proposed eliminating $90 billion of Federal spending. Some of his targets for fund slashing: welfare, housing, food stamps. Reagan government handouts have as much access to the voting booth as do the rest of us. Discussion aside, the spending keeps going on. President food stamp tration government spending, plus a payment on the national debt, would not only reduce his taxes, but put the brakes on inflation, which eats up the money he has left over after Uncle Sam takes his oversized bite. Cynics say, however, that privately employed or taxpayers taxpayers, the only arent period people who vote. There are a lot of constituents out there whose jobs depend on the continuance and growth of lavish Federal largesse. And people who live on - Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley A-HAM-A VI The Tastiest Buffet in Town 5 LOCATIONS IN UTAH insouciant errors, and sheer waste. Meanwhile, Congress has seen to it that a family of four with an income of $9,770 per year qualifies for reduced rate school lunches subsidized by the rest of us. cuts, it would be possible to balance the Federal budget, make an initial $5 billion payment on the national debt, and cut the Federal personal income tax burden by an average of 23 percent. These are words that should cause the average overtaxed American to sit up and take notice. A in program; ineligibility, The reduction has taxpayers will believe that when they see it. Notes Victor Riesel on the subject of food stamps: At least $1 billion a year is being ripped off through fraud, maintained that by these sizeable Ford announced a rehaul of the Veterans Adminis- out a cool $100 million due. to veterans who . dropped out of college but failed to notify the VA of that small detail, thus continuing to receive their is educational benefits. And the Federal payroll runs over S60 billion per annum. There are those who say that Federal spending is so far gone that it is, for all intents and purposes, out of control. Politicians talk about it but nobody does -or will do anything about it. There seems to be only one hope left. That the taxpayers get to the polls next year and vote for their - own special - program interest namely, fiscal survival. -- American Way Features Reader's comments and questions Please are write us welcome. at The American Way Features Box 1098, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863. SKELETONS What is hidden in the Fed closet? Could it be the incredible mismanagement that led to the Fed's pouring over $6 billion into failing corporations (they went bankrupt anyway!) to protect their creditors, the big banks? Is it the procedure by which the Fed selects the 28 agents, mostly New York bankers, who have the lucrative monopoly on marketing government bonds? How many other cozy deals are there between the Fed and its favored friends? It is easy to see why the big banks joined the Fed in opposing an independent audit that would open the closet door and just might disclose the best-fe- d skeletons in history. 744 E. 4th South 2960 Highland Drive Fashion Place Mall folks! Lumping people into groups and jumping to conclusions about each group people over 65 would without social go hungry security is standard socialistic procedure. A corollary socialistic conclusion is that breadwinners under 65 must be compelled by force of law to respect and care for their elders. These conclusions rest on false assumptions made by that those so lacking in in faith have no anyone they can else as an individual. Their faith is in coercion, and they thus conclude that government holds the only answer to every problem. To those of little faith, it is necessary to explain again and again and again that government is noncreative and can distribute only what it first taxes away from the productive efforts of individuals. The people are first, last, and always individuals, some more economically creative than others, but each worthy of respect as a human being. To tax a man's earnings and savings, for other than defensive purposes, is to reduce his capacity and his incentive to care for himself and for others, rendering him part slave to others and thus less than human. Furthermore, he also is enslaved and debased who either volunteers or is forced to look to the taxing power of government for his livelihood. Slavery has been tried in the United States, unfortunately, and a major reason why it failed is that it was, and is. an unproductive way of life; it lets people go hungry. It also is morally degrading to slave and master alike. Yet, we are being told that without compulsory social security taxes upon the young and strong, the oldsters self-respe- ct among (All in Salt Ixike City) Orem Ogden Though compulsory social security has been the law of the land for little more than a generation, many citizens of the United States are now convinced that they, couldnt get along without it. To express doubts about the propriety of the program is to invite the question: Would you let them starve? Millions of Americans are old enough to remember things that happened prior to passage of the Social Security Act in 1935, but where is one of them whoever watched a human being starve? No, we wouldnt let them starve Anyone would have to work hard at it, in secret, to approach starvation in this country! So why is it so widely believed that, without social security benefit payments, many people would go hungry? The social security idea is based on the questionable premise that a man's usefulness ends at age 65. He is supposed to be without savings and without capacity to continue to earn his living. If that premise were correct, it would be easy to see how hunger might develop among the aged. If they're really good for nothing, who wants to be bothered to look after the old us would go are inhungry perhaps starve: vited to try once again a semi-slav- e Hope is the greatest sustaining force in life. ..the one element in the human spirit that will not remain Economic Irvington-on-HudsoInc., New York n, socialists are dead wrong. Their premises are faulty. Free human beings may be counted upon to care well for themselves and lor their fellow men, voluntarily. What should concern us all is that, if we persist under the false premises of the social security idea (socialism), many Americans will go hungry - not only physically hungry, but morally and spiritually starved as well. The prime argument against social security is in the moral realm, (living to one individual or group the fruits of the labor of others taken from them by coercion is an immoral procedure, with destructive effect upon sense of personal responsibility of everyone involved. But there are sufficient reasons for rejecting the program, even from a strictly materialistic point of view: in1. It is not old-ag- e surance; it is a regressive income tax, the greatest burden of which falls on those earning $4,800 or less annually. 2. The so-call- social ed security fund of about $20 billion amounts to nothing more than a bookkeeping entry, showing how much money the federal government has borrowed from itself in the name of social security and spent for other purposes. 3. The fact that an individual has paid social security taxes all his life does not mean that any of that money has been set aside or invested for his account; if he ever receives social security benefits, they must come from from others taxes collected (perhaps even from him) at the time. 4. The matching amounts, presumably paid by employers on behalf of individual employees, are in effect paid by the employees either through reduced wages or through higher prices for goods and services. 5. Offering a subsidy to those who retire at age 65 does not provide additional savings for plant and tools and thus create jobs for younger workers; it increases their tax load. 6. A person now entering the social security program at age 20 is scheduled to pay $1 .69 in taxes for every $1.00 promised in benefits. IM TOO YOUNG TO DIE! system under masters, of course. benevolent Well, those subdued by difficulties. Always it beckons toward the promised land. Man lives, struggles, suffers; he finds himself rebuffed, disillusioned, discouraged, and his efforts and labors wasted, only to have an inner voice tell him to go on, to take one more step, then another, and another. It was a wise Providence that planted hope in the human breast. When every thing else is gone, hope lingers on. Fortunately for man, it is the last thing to leave him unless he himself easts it -- aside. The strength of youth is its unlimited hopefulness. Hope quickens all the still parts of life, and keeps the mind awake in its most remiss and in- dolent hours. Hope gives habitual serenity and good humor. It makes pain easy and labor pleasant; it is the mainspring of human action. It is natures greatest gift. ORGANIC WALNUTS 50 $22.49 With No Commercial Grown Fertilizers from Feather River Valley near Mt. Lassen, No. Calif. All other nuts at Special Holiday Prices 299-304- 1 WILL BUY SILVER Bars and Medallions TOP MA RKET PRICES Continental Trading 227 West 600 South Salt Lake Citv. Utah 84101 Phone (MIPS (MUSIC COM 1AN v Across from Salt Palace WE BUY - SELL AND TRADE PIANOS 65 South West Tomplo Stroot Salt Lako City, Utah 84101 Phona: 8 364-6S1- INSTANT INTEREST BONUS 2Bonus Is given on all Interlake Thrift SavingsCertificates For each $1000 a $10 cash bonus For a more comprehensive review of these and other arguments against compulsory security, see The Social Security Program in THE FREEMAN, November, 1962: copy on reguest (The Foundation For Economic Education, New Inc., Irvington-On-HudsoYork) When a devotee of private property, free market, limited government principles states his position, he is inevitably confronted with a barrage of socialistic cliches. Failure to answer these has effectively silenced many a spokesman for freedom. Here are suggested answers to some of the most persistent of the "Cliches of Socialism." These are not the only answers or even the pounded best possible answers; but they may help you or others to develop better explanations of the ideas on liberty that are the only effective n, displacement for the empty promises of socialism. we STOP ABORTION 9 step you can take is: the one ou take when you meet the other fellow hallway. Flic biggest Semi-Annuall- y' $500 or more |