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Show Page 2 THE AMERICAN STATESMAN The American Statesman THE UTAH STATESMAN J. BRACKEN LEE, Editor end Publisher Background for Taxation , Anthony G. Hatsis (Continued from page 1, col, 3) If a thing is worth supporting Board of Directors: Samuel S. Arentz, Charles H. Foote, Hubbard S. and people believe in it, it is not Russell, Anthony G. Hatsis. hard to get the money. Of course, Entered as 2nd Class matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake City, Utah, when government attempts to do under the act of March 3, 1879 the same thing without cost, which is only a falsehood, then some peoSubscription Rate $5.00 per year ple lean on the government and Published weekly by The American Statesman refuse to do their share of supportState Exchange Bldg., 345 So. State ing benevolent and educational inSalt Lake City 11, Utah stitutions. , ' Our Founding Fathers Idea In article this paper may be reprinted without special permission, Any It seems to me our Founding unless otherwise stated on article. Fathers .had the idea how governVoL 13; No. 48 Friday, December 11, 1959 ment should be supported; that it should be supported on a voluntary basis, because the Declaration of Independence says that governAction Survey ments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. And that certainly means exactly what it says, because no one can give a mans consent but that man him(Continued from page 1, col. 2) you support all the insane squan- self. It does not and never did dering of the peoples money. This people and compels the citizen to squandering , is disgusting to the mean the majority. And if a man doesnt want every become a servant of the governpeople who work so hard, them- mans life and property protected ment to make ends meet. and is not willing to help support He says, about repealing the in- selves, This is because assumed come tax: you say it on a voluntary basis, then that other taxes must to sup- man should not be forced to supraised be It would throw our tax sysand other government port it, because if you force him tem into chaos and would necesply you spend-thrifwith the funds to con- to support it, in order to be fair, sitate the impostlon of stringent new forms of excise taxes and tinue the rackets which are cost- you would have to let him vote ing the people at least the amount and sooner or later there would other levies." I do not know how any country of money the government collects become enough of that kind of people who take such a large part of could have a tax system more from the personal income tax. what is produced, that the govchaotic than the one now existing ernment instead of being a serv20 Billion Wasted in the United States and all of it ant and an agent would become a brought about by the present inYou should know that the actual master. That is the reason so far come tax law. money spent for defense is not one that all governments sooner or later half of the money you and others become decadent and perish. Chaos approve to be spent by the defense The only way I can think of I would like Senator Kennedy to department At least one half of keeping the government down is to point out any tax system in the this 40 billion is wasted, squan- have the government supported entire world that could be worse dered, grafted, stolen, and given like any private enterprise is supaway. than the one he now defends. ported by rendering a service efIt certainly would not be chaotic If the government would simply ficient enough that people want to for the people to be relieved of the put a stop to these evils, plus the voluntarily support it burden of supporting greedy, self- evils and unconstitutional expendiIf we had this kind of a governish government agencies whose ap- tures of other Federal Bureaus, not ment we wouldnt have tariffs and petites for money can never be sat- one dollar of additional taxes immigration quotas that lead to isfied. would be needed to replace the 40 wars and wouldnt be subsidizing It certainly would not be chaotic billion dollars of personal income farmers or having laws that permit for the citizens of the U.S. to have tax which could be left in the hands organized labor to plunder and extheir personal income increased of the people who earned it. ploit other workers. We wouldnt from 20 per cent and up. schools have that dwarf the minds of the youth Rebellion who attend them, rather than stimNo Panic This country was founded as a them to have a will to learn ulate I do not know of any citizen who result of a rebellion of the people laws that govern mens the eternal would panic at the thought of be- who opposed excessive taxation and to each other and the ing freed from the unconstitutional our Constitution written to prohibit relationship of the universe. laws eternal police powers now so shamefully a personal income tax and for Of course, I do not expect this abused by the collectors of the in- almost 140 years operated successto idea be adopted, but we should come tax. fully and in the interests of the have an ideal toward which to What Mr. Kennedy really means people without this income .tax. strive. is that to repeal the 16th AmendNow you have the nerve to say The United States government ment would certainly create chaos that those of us who have some was never intended to be a majoamong the thousands, yea, hunatstandard of moral decency are rity-rule country where the madreds of thousands of federal emnostempting a mere exercise in jority could exploit the minority. ployees who would not be needed talgia to insist that a law be reIt is a Republic, and as the word the -- citizens out of to brow-behas proven to be the implies, man is intended to be that pealed their earnings, their freedoms and limited to only those things that very root of the evil that has practheir rights as a free people. tically nullified the Constitution of are of a public nature and leavthe United States. ing to the individual those things Like to Know Your letter and your thinking that were of a private nature, ' Yes, Mr. Kennedy, we would like is such that you do not deserve namely, individual responsibility to know; do you prefer the chaos each man is owner of himsupport for any public office from where the now self exists and all he produces. that people people who believe that this govamong of this nation, which you appear to ernment should be run for the peodefend, because you fear the chaos ple, by the people. which might exist among the army now on the of federal payrolls should the people Yuba-Suttresidents who wish be relieved of this oppressive and to indicate their objection to the destructive tax? onerous Income Tax amendment may sign, at the office of the Supports Squandering t, Marysville, Calif., Your statement, like others who a defend this tax, also implies that petition requesting Congress to start the machinery moving for repeal of the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Business J. Manager Friday, December 11, 1959 ; Bracken Lee Comments . ts . ise at so-call- ed Income Tax do-good- ers er Appeal-Democra- Inaugural Ball to Honor Lee The interest and demand for tickets has quickened to the point where those who are interested in attending the Inagural Ball and J. Banquet honoring Mayor-eleBracken Lee had better pick up their tickets as soon as they possibly can. Make your table reservation now, said Kingsley Clawson, chairman of the ball and chairman of the Citizens for Lee Committee. Without a doubt, as the holiday season approaches table reservations will be at a premium. Reservations for 1,500 people are being made. This festive affair will be held in the Union Building Ball ct - room on the campus of the University of Utah on Monday, January 4, 1960 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $10.00 a plate and may be purchased at Citizens for Lee headquarters, 345 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. If you would like tickets mailed to you call DAvis Dinner music and other entertainment will highlight the banquet which will be followed by dancing in the beautifully appointed ballroom. Dress is optional. You are urged to make your table reservations now to insure a table in the main dining room. Connally Amendment (Continued from page 1, col. 5) sentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States AS DEBY THE UNITED TERMINED STATES. This IKE doesnt want Ikes Great Purpose could, mean but one thing . . . The handing over to the Communists our country, Lock, Stock and Barrel J. D. L. But Where to Move? FLIGHT TO RUSSIA by Frank Chodorov Part II Conclusion (Up to this point the novelist is dealing with the documented past The challenge to his imaginative faculty and h$s knowledge of social and political behavior starts with war in the making.) Then came war. It was known as World War III, but the fact is there were only two real opponents, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The allies upon whom the U.S. had placed some reliance in the beginning turned out to be too far debilitated by long years of statism to be of much help in the struggle; in fact, some of them quit before the fighting started. The novelist might develop this point, in detail but far more important for the central theme (that is, the exodus of Americans to Russia) is the picturization of the social and political consequences of the war on both nations. The prosecution of the war and this is an essentional point in the development of the thesis-dema- nded complete abandonment of social power in favor of political power. America had to go totalitarian, ostensibly for the duration, for the survival of the nation was at stake. One does not talk of personal rights and prerogatives when the village is on fire or when the enemy is at the city gates. The Constitution was put into moth balls, private property was abolished, the government undertook to manage, control and direct all production, to fix prices and wages, to ration supplies, to channel all behavior into the main purpose. In due time the war was over. Attrition brought the struggle to an end, and attrition came to Russia first because of its antecedent experience. The Russians had endured six centuries of economic slavery, four under the czars, two under the commissars. And slaves are notoriously poor producers. When the stockpile of war materiel which the commissars had been able to whip out of their reluctant subjects was exhausted, in the first weeks after the opening of hostilities, the jerry-bui- lt capital structure was unable to provide replacements fastenough to meet the flow from American factories. To this deficiency must be added the apathy and even hostility of the populace; the Russian people had little stomach for war, particularly a war which promised . to further entrench the commissars in power. Indeed, when it seemed that the Americans had a better than even chance to. succeed, spontaneous fires of rebellion sprang up in the commissars rear and they were faced with two fighting fronts. War' Crime Trials The commissars did not surrender; they simply vanished, knowing full well what the verdict of expected "war crime trials would be. Their mass, disappearance created a problem' of proportions for the American government, for there was nobody with whom to conclude a peace treaty. A political establishment, not with a people, business only with another political establishment, not with a people and the Russian people were too preoccupied with the problem of living to give any attention to political matters. So, the occupation troops had to sit around and wait for orders, while the people took to feeding, clothing and sheltering themselves. They worked hard because that was the only way to survive. Gradually, it dawned on them that there was no government around to rob them of their substance, that they could keep and consume all they produced, and the consciousness of. private property gave them additional energy. In short order they found themselves possessed of capital in the way of tools, small factories making consumer goods, and a thriving market place. Something like a spiritual uplift came to them: hope, ambition, enterprise and the dreams that freedom gives rise to. Town Hall There was a social structure, to be sure, for trading has a way of creating a society. The social unit was the village or town, and such common problems as did come up were threshed out at the town hall meeting, with dispatch, since everyone was more concerned with the festivities that invariably followed the business part of the gathering. Respected elders took over, by common consent, the juridical functions of the community, and priests did what priests are supposed to do. But, there was nothing resembling a government no constabulary, no tax collector. Every- i (Continued on page 4, col. 1) |