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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 4 The Utah Independent October 19, 1978 The Revlresco Report How The Income iTax Can Be Repealed Continued from page THE INVISIBLE MAN 1 last year,youandI fact some experts say it costs Americans Marriott stated, shelled out to government 42 of .every, about $2,000 per family per year just to V. v see that regulations are complied with. It dollar we earned. On the subject of increasing taxation, costs business some $130 billion a year Congressman Tom Hagedom had this to to comply with these regulations and the Federal taxes have climbed-10cost must be passed on to the consumer. say: And then Congressman Bafalis consince 1968. And worse than that. State" and local' taxes have soared: 1 52durlng that tinued: And In -- 5 : same periodl!l ' . , NATIONAL DEFICIT The September 9, 1978, issue 0?HUMAn EVENTS carried an article by Cahgjred&man Bill Dickinson in which he gave the following statistics: During the past charter of a' INCREASING has, grown century, federal spending ' 555,' What's worse, many of these regulations can subject violators to jail or heavy fines or both. And since the Code of Federal Regulations fills some 60,000 enough to cram pages in 38 volumes ot shelf full a it isnt hard to 15-fo- imagine running afoul of a regulation you never heard of before. . THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX going from about $75 billion ;35 years ago REPEAL The AP reported on August 21 that to about half a trillion dollars for. fiscal ' of Proposition 13 Howard Jarvis, 1979. r Through the same 25 year S' the "national in California announced a nationwide camdebt has mushroomed from $265 billion to paign proposing a $100 billion cut in federal $814 billion. In just eight years from 1970 spending over a four-ye- ar period. and too late. too little doubled This more is debt than the has through 1978, -- a much There is faster and simpler rising from $377 billion: to more than $800 billion. At this rate the national debt way of reducing the size and power- of will exceed $1 trillion by the early 1980s. the federal government and restoring inThe interest costs on the debt is tne dividual liberties: amend the Constitution federal governments fourth largest annual to reinstate the constitutionally limited expenditure, presently about $50 billion and government envisioned by our Founding Fathers. growing.' Federal spending can be cut more efYet in view of the foregoing facts. President Jimmy Carter presented Con- fectively (and without touching the adof the constitutionally gress with a budget for fiscal 1979, which ministration of government) by functions authorized begins October 1, 1978, in the amount of around $500 billion. And Carters budget eliminating those activities wMch are, in includes a projected $58 billion deficit to fact, violations of the Constitution. Such a proposed Constitutional amendbe added to the national debt. On May 8, 1978, commenting oi) Carter's ment already exists. It was. introduced in the present Congress as House Joint budget, Congressman Marriott, stated: Resolution 23 by Congressmen John Rous-sel- ot, of in "It is the largest budget the history Steve Symms and Larry McDonald. the United States. It constitutes an 11;; Known as the Liberty Amendment, it has Increase in federal spending alone, and been approved by the legislatures of seven means an Increased burden of more. than ; States Wyoming, Texas, Nevada, Lou$600 for each American household plus the Inflation costs caused by such excessive isiana, Georgia, South Carolina and Misgovernment spending and deficit. j sissippi. The Liberty Amendment would To draw a mental picture of how much strike at the heart of the Mgh-ta- x problem Carter's budget really is: Suppose you were by making the federal income tax unconasked to line up enough men, each carrying stitutional. The Liberty Amendment has one million dollars,, to move $500 billion been researched in depth by its creator, across town. You would have to .call in Lillis Stone, for almost 30 years. In 1977 each carrying one million Stone turned the National Chairmanship of 500,000 men the Liberty Amendment Committee of the dollars! United States of America over to W. Cleon INFLATION BALLOONS Skousen. The first sectiqn of the Liberty AmendOn June the Labor Department ment announced that during May; inflation, (H.J. Res. 23) provides: double-digit the into range edged "The Government of the United States ' an annual rate of 10. Thus conshall not engage in any business, profes- -. sumers were socked with big p idee hikes slonal, commercial, financial or Industrial new a enterprise and and except as specified in the Concars for food, housing .sharp stitution. "f i decline in buying power. Workers are now earning more dollars H.J. Res. 23 would give the but realizing less in real income.iWhen the just three years to unload allgovernment of its 700 federal government spends more than it corporations and more than 11,000 busireceives in tax revenues, it rolls the; printing nesses wMch compete with the private presses and thereby cheapens the..1Value of sector without Constitutional authority. the dollar. Some of the larger government busiIn June, Congressman Philip M.' Crane nesses are the Commodity Credit Corpointed out in a press release .that when poration, a loan company; the Tennessee Americans receive wage in- Valley Authority, a gigantic producer and creases to compensate for inflation, they distributor of electric power and fertiliser; are being pushed into higher and, higher and the Federal Crop Insurance Cortax brackets by which the federal govern-me- nt poration, an intrusion into the insurance takes a greater percentage?of their field. income. Rather than The Patent Office has produced eleckeeplngup with inflation, the individual taxpayer finds his tronic equipment in competition with private tax burden increasing while Ms 'standard enterprise. The Central Intelligence Agenof living is declining. cy, according to the UJ5. budget, is engaged in roadbuilding, real estate and property RULE BY BUREAUCRATSV; V-management. The Defense Department is the to General According Accounting operating railroads, barge lines, hotels, Office, the cost of federal salaries for the restaurants, saloons, and they even manuI co-aut- hor . - .. . . . . 30,-197- 8, ove -- cost-of-livi- ng - ' civilian workforce of 3 million was $38 billion in 1973. In 1975 the payroll cost rose to $47 billion, and to $59 billion in 1977. In. 1978 the cost of the federal payroll is expected to top $62 billion. The federal bureaucracy has become so unmanageable that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare alone admitted to losing over $6 billion in 1977 due to waste, mismanagement and fraud. Congressman Skip Bafalis has revealed that in 1977 the bureaucrats wrote 7,568 new an average of 18 a day. regulations ' . , facture ladies underwear. The sole function of the Defense Department is to defend this country from foreign aggression. The Liberty Amendment will not cut the obligations of the Defense Department to carry out its specified duties, to defend this nation on the ground, in the air, at sea, and even in space. The federal government's corporate activities have been found to be in aggressive non-tax- ed competition with privately owned taxpaying enterprises. The losses ofthese Continued on page 11 Professor Edwin Brown station Firmage was a guest on Salt Lake City KSXX. At one point during the radio program a taller asked Firmage why he was a member of the Council on face this imForeign Relations (CFR). Rather than portant question squarely. Dr. Firmage responded: Well, thats kind of a red herring to enter here. He continued to weakly explain that, while the CFR had selected him for one of its fellowships a few years ago, the elitist organization does not dictate what you do with the money, and they dont determine what youre going to say and do. On November 14, 1977, talk-sho- v w Of course, that is nonsense. By the very selection process, the CFR eliminates those fellows likely to eventually come up on the wrong side (from the CFRs internationalist viewpoint) of the assigned issues. The selections are far from random (which is why the C FR has never stuck in its thumb and pulled out a John Bircher as a grant recipient). It is no mere coincidence that the views of Dr. Firmage on issues ranging from disarmament to the Panama Canal to the United Nations coincide in all basic respects with the general line laid down in the publications and pronouncements of the CFR. If he had, for instance, been onrecord favoring the U.S. getting out of the U.N., there is not a chance in a million that he would have received his CFR fellowship. . While admitting to KSXX listeners that the CFR paid part of my salary for part of a year for me to do the significance of some research, Firmage played-dow- n that fact by claiming, I dont think that matters much in the nature of things. I would hate to get off on the tangent He even about the Council on Foreign Relations. neglected to mention that he formally joined the CFR upon completion of his paid tour of duty with the outfit, member for nearly seven and has been a dues-payiyears. . ng . We understand that details about the make-u- p and philosophy of the CFR will be discussed elsewhere in this issue of the Independent , so we shall not attempt to gild those particular lilies. It is worth noting, however, that when former FBI Agent Dan Smoot published his bestselling analysis of the CFR in 1962, he entitled it The Invisible Government. And he concluded, on the basis of the overwhelming evidence contained in his book, that the objective of this invisible government is to convert America into a socialist state and then make it a unit in a ld socialist government. Can anyone who has actually looked into the matter seriously question that our nation has been moved in that direction, with increasing speed, regardless of which political party has been in power at a given moment? Or that most of the key formula tors of the policies which have driven us to the Left have come from the ranks of the CFR? (If so, have them get in touch with us immediately, as we can give them a bargain price on a famous Eastern bridge.) ' . one-wor- Professor Firmages close ties with the CFR are not a red herring, and they do matter very much in the nature of things. Especially things like Congressional campaigns. He is the Democratic candidate for the Second District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, and as such he has a lot to explain about his CFR ties publicly and in detail before November 7th. Editor's Note: For an discussion of the CFR including Dan Smoots important book and numerous article reprints), we recommend The C.F.R. Packet, available for two dollars from the American Opinion Bookstore, 121 E. 300 S., Salt Lake City, Utah 84111. in-dep- th MOSCOWITES VS. PEKINGITES To understand Sen. McGoverns call for action to stop Cambodias Communists, after his long and strong opposition to actions that would stop Vietnams Communists, you must realize that Cambodias Communists are Peking-sipporte- d while Vietnams Moscow-supportewere and are - J. Kesner Kahn d. . |