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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand September 2, 1976 The Utah Independent Page Paperwork Inflation 0 SS 11 9 By REP. CHARLES THONE (R.-Ne- b.) ' Conspiracy Influence On May 1, 1976 This is the nineteenth in the series of annual American Opinion Scoreboards , of which the first was presented in 1958. The scores indicate the composite estimate, of our experts on six continents, as to the influence of the international blaster Conspiracy in each country of the world as a percentage of total control. The bracket of sixty percent to eighty percent for the United States, for instance, indicates that in the opinion of these experts the varying degrees of Communist and internationalist influence of the Conspiracy in government, in the press, in education, and in all other segments of American life, now combine to exercise from sixty to eighty percent of total control over whatever we do as a nation. Bear in mind that this Conspiracy at once embraces such advocates of the New World Order as the leaders of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderbergers, the Trilateral Commission, the World Federalists, the various Communist Parties, assorted Insiders of internationalist finance, and such would-b- e Big Brothers as have actively committed themselves to plans to control the entire world by bringing about an end to nationhood, which can only mean a Communist boot stamping on the human face forever. In the following tabulation the first column shows the score for June 1, 1958. The second is the score for May 1, 1976. A plus sign after the score for 1976 shows that the estimated influence of the Conspiracy has increased, and a minus sign that it has decreased, since last years Scoreboard . Detailed notes on the Scoreboard are presented in 1976. American Opinion magazine for D July-Aug- ust Government paperwork added SO cents to the price of every prescription Riled last year with medicine produced b one of the nation's largest pharmaceutical manufacturers. The Commission on Federal Paperis work. created by a bill I devoted to a temporary body reducing the quantity of forms and reports that the federal government requires of the public. Richard Wood, chairman of the board of Eli Lilly and Co., testified before that commission recently. He told how government paperwork to the price of each adds a prescription filled with Lilly's medicine. Logic would lead us to the conclusion that smaller pharmaceutical manufacturers would have much higher overhead due to government paperwork. ed, half-doll- ar Government paperwork requires Eli Lilly to spend more personnel hours than the firm can invest on research for cancer and heart disease combined. Mr. Wood's company, spends more than $100 million a year on research. Heart disease and cancer represent two of the five fields in which it is concentrating its research. of His firm performs about one-ten- th the research conducted by all pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United States. Some of the ridiculousness of overregulation was emphasized by Mr. Wood. A medicine for arthritis which Lilly now has on the market required an application that consisted of 120,000 original pages. Submitted in duplicate and triplicate, the application required over a ton of paper. Only 30,000 of the 120,000 pages contained significant information, according to Mr. Wood. The same company manufactures medicines for prescription by veterinarians and chemicals for use by farmers. At the paperwork commission hearing, Mr. Wood had with him a computer printout that was an index to the material the company had to submit to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to obtain approval for an improved weed killer for farmers. Each entry on each of 153-pa- ge Hidden Taxes By SEN. JESSE HELMS (R.-N.C- .) Clever politicians learned a long time ago that it is easy to fool a majority of the American people by forcing them to pay hidden taxes. The politicians wouldn't dare to impose the taxes direct, so that the taxpayers could know what their government is costing them. Therefore, the tax schemes dreamed up by government are a tapestry of deceit. If youll stop to think, you hear and read a great deal these days about politicians who attack big corporations." That is regarded as smart politics, because nobody loves a big corporation. At the same time, there ought to be some way to make consumers the customers who buy things from the various understand that when the businesses government imposes an additional tax on the corner grocery store, be it large or small, that tax will really be paid by the customers of that store. That's the way hidden taxes work. The taxes that any business pays are a part of its overhead, just like all of its other business expenses. The only way that business can pay its expenses including taxes is by including its expenses in the prices it charges you and me, and its other customers. "Scoreboard 1976" first appeared in the 1976 issue of AMERICAN OPINION (Belmont, Massachusetts 02178) and is reprinted by permission of the July-Augu- i.U of st publisher. |