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Show The Paper That Dares To Take HALT NYC LOANS NOW!! Washington: Congress or the Secretary of the Treasury should call for an immediate halt to the seasonal loans made to New York G ty and New York State until they take steps to comply with the loan plan and verify that they will, in fact, repay the loans. Senator Jake Garn (R-U- t) said today in a news conference. New York Gty is not complying with the three year financial plan on which the government seasonal loan is based. Because of this I have written a letter to Senator William Proxmire of the March 18, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 3 Stand A CLICHES OF SOCIALISM tasks and responsibilities of house ownership. He is probably aware that the returns on apartment house investments are mostly meager and always jeopardized by rising taxes 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 best possible answers; but they may help you or others to develop better explanations of the ideas on liberty investments with less worry to him. And yet, for better housing conditions he clamors for government action and spending of tax money. Most advocates of better education are clamoring for more state and federal aid to education. They are convinced that better education depends'on additional spending of government funds. They want new school buildings, promises of socialism. more n, seif-styl- ed $297-millio- 2.9-billi- on $4-billi- on nt modern and transportation, and, above all, higher teacher salaries. Since individual effort seems so minute in their grandiose schemes of spending, they fall on the government as the bountiful source of limitless funds. do-nothi- ng on classrooms, equipment, 10-mill- S800-milli- ON COURSE and government controls. Therefore, he prefers safer that are the only effective displacement for the empty Senate Banking, ' Housing and Foundation for Economic Irvington-on-HudsoInc., Education, Urban Affairs Committee requesNew York ting immediate oversight hearings Dont you want to do be held. New York City and State officials should return to the Comanything? mittee to account for their willful The socialists use good disregard of their obligations under the conditions of the Federal psychology when they depict as champions of loan and commitments to the themselves political initiative and action. Committee. know that both attributes still Acting as spokesman for the They demand the respect and adSenate Steering Committee, Senator Gam charged that New miration of decent people. York, officials have not made Therefore, in the name of action acneeded budget cuts to fulfill .their and progress these side of the loan agreement. New tivists denounce the friends of York must cut SI in freedom and individual enterprise for their negative attitudes and budget expenditures in fiscal year policies. Dont you has 1976; to date, only SI been cut. Since November the City want to do anything? is a common retort that aims to stymie all objecbudget deficit has increased n. another This years tions. These arguments are wholly $1 budget will have to be fallacious. Their premises must be cut over SI --billion if revenues and and their conclusions expenditures are to balance in rejected ac1978. It is inconceivable New York corrected. In reality the call for is . a manifestation of intion will be able to meet the SI. dividual lethargy and inertness. It budget cut by the end of the three is tantamount to a call for year period. Default by June 1978 government action rather than inis inevitable even if New York comdividual initiative. plies with the three year plan. The advocate of foreign aid New Yorkers will be on our who depicts in dark colors the doorsteps again in a month asking for more money. Mayor Beame misery and suffering in foreign contends that the State and countries does not mean to act himself when he demands action Federal governments have to contribute more relief as the Gty can- and initiative in this field of social endeavor. He does not mean to not absorb the needed cuts in areas send CARE packages to starving of welfare and court reform. State Asians and Africans. And he does is assistance of , not plan to invest his savings in the programmed each year of the loan socialized economies of India or plan. This will require new finan- the Congo. He probably knows cing by the State causing them to rather well that his investments on the borrow nearly would soon be consumed, market within the plan period. squandered, and confiscated by Mayor Beame, hoping for governments that are hostile to changes in the Administration and investments. And yet, he the national economy, is con- capital calls on his government to waste sidering deferring larger budget billions of dollars of the taxpayers cuts to the final year of the three money. year plan. He informed municipal The advocate of more abununion leaders that no further dant and better housing does not layoffs would be made. Despite an mean to use his own funds to excess of hospital beds, the Gty low-rehousing. He, continues full operation of its hos- provide himself, does not want to act; he pital network. Beames solution to calls on the government for action. this is to decertify some of the It is the government whose private hospitals. Gty university initiative and action he would like tuition remains unchanged, and to employ and the peoples tax their municipal broadcasting he proposes to spend. He, service continues to operate at a money himself, probably is a tenant comcost of per year with no plaining about high rentals but indication of a cutback. The State is also at fault. This week Governor Carey signed tax on a bill voiding the face amount each thousand-dolla- r of bonds levied on brokers. The tax was adopted last August to STOP ABORTION in revenue for M TOO YOUNG TO DIE! produce the City. Because brokerage firms threatened to leave New Yor k, the tax was repealed. New Yorks Governor Carey's action in voiding I procedures for accounting and that specific tax, but do question reporting also require substantial the initial decision that the tax It is and immediate improvement. The would produce Citys financial structure and con- another example of faulty trols are so inadequate that it is im- budgeting. New Yorks inability to possible to provide complete and evaluate their financial situation and adequate steps to correct accurate financial data. I do not necessarily question it. the shunning The apostle of rapid economic growth does not advocate personal initiative and action. He does not mean to offer his own effort and thrift toward economic growth. It takes more than $15,000 in savings to create an additional job. Even more savings are needed if the job is to be more productive with higher wages and better working conditions. In his personal life the growth apostle probably is spending next months income on consumption, relying mainly on charge accounts and installment loans. He, himself, does not save the capital that is needed for leconomic growth. His call for initiative and action is merely a call for government expenditures financed with the peoples money or through inflation. This is why the quest for initiative and action" must be seen as a quest for government action. When seen in proper perspective, the question, Dont you want to do anything? actually means Dont you want the government to spend the peoples 'money on foreign aid, housing, education, economic growth, and soforth? It means in many cases Dont you want socialism? This analysis clearly reveals why the friend of freedom and individual enterprise, is often denounced for being merely negative". The terms positive and negative are relative to given points of orientation. Whoever opposes socialism and all its en. . croachments on individual initiative and action is negative in the eyes of socialists. But he is when unwaveringly positive freedom is the criterion of orien' tation, because- - freedom is his positive concern. His life is filled with initative and action. Hans F. Sennholz TAX CUT OR NO, WELL PAY MORE TAXES with Capt. Joe H. Ferguson COMMUNIST AGjGRESSION AND U.S. POLICY Captain Joe H. Ferguson COMMUNIST 25-ce- nt $25-milli- on I $25-millio- n. ROOM FOR DOUBT? NY The Communist Party International has repeatedly stated that its objective is Communist domination of the entire world, using the Soviet Union as its main base of operations. The events of the past several decades, especially the past four, leaves little doubt that the Communists are unwavering in this objective. Furthermore, it appears that they are advancing toward this objective. The conquest of Cuba and now Angola, are solid stepping stones in their advance toward world domination. And, fellow Americans, let us be keenly aware that the Communist plans for world domination does not exclude the United States. U.S. FOREIGN POLICY COUNTERPRODUCTIVE TO FREEDOM For the past four decades, at least, the policy of the U.S. State Department has been almost the opposite to. the desires of the American people. The State Department has continuously failed to recognize and treat the Communist nations for what they have declared themselves to be our enemy. Using one excuse after another, our State Department has not only not opposed Communist advances, but they have aided them. In many instances, they have PRETENDED to oppose them, but their actions must be considered as a more tangible indicator of their intent than their words. The attitude of the State Department seems to be summed up by a recent statement by Secretary Henry Kissinger that, We are not going to base our entire foreign policy on the actions of one small island in the Caribbean. Meaning, that he plans to ignore, no doubt, the part that Cuba has played in the Communist takeover of Angola. And, he would no doubt ignore the part that Cuba would play in possible (or probable) moves of aggression by the Communists in this hemisphere. ANGOLA IN PERSPECTIVE The fall of Angola to the Communists is most important to all Americans and to every person in the free world. Angola is an important spot in the world geographically and the ramifications of the Communist takeover are being weighed by countries around the glove. Angola holds valuable natural resources and is situated so. that a navy based in its ports could dominate shipping in the Southeast Atlantic. It also serves as a staging base for the Soviet Union for its inevitable further acts of war upon other nations in Africa. Already, for instance, Mozambique is moving to an aggressive position towards free Rhodesia. If Rhodesia should fall, then which country would be next? Or where would the communists stop? Any thinking person who has followed Communist activities the past four decades knows the answer there is no point short of complete world domination where they would stop. The fact that faces Continued on page 9 $4-milli- on The progressive, as in our progressive federal . income tax, means that as the number of dollars increases the rate of taxation increases, the tax becomes a larger percentage of the taxable income. Inflation increases the number of dollars on our tax returns, and automatically this means paying higher tax rates. In fact 1975 inflation will automatically boost the tax rate and thus increase taxes by more than the proposed SI 7 billion tax cut. So. even with the tax cut well still end up paying more in taxes, and without the tax cut well end up paying a whole lot more in taxes. GOALS-A- The misr Independent Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Independent Is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $1C.OO by surface mail in the United States, $15.00 foreign. Second Class Postage Paid at Salt Lake City nd chango ol addraas lorma and corraapondenca to 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Utah's Largest and Fastest- - Growing Subscription Weekly |