| Show HISTORY CAN REPEAT ITSELF lit in 1860 tile tho federal government cost the average citizen por per year in 1931 tile tho cost ot of government for all units was per capita in 1013 1913 the total cost of ment was and in 1919 and in 1931 it was waa in 1929 a ariar of inflated prosperity the total tax of tile amerl american people amounted to 16 per cent of their incomes in 1931 a year of bleak depression it amounted to 28 per cent the current year may bo be tho the most expensive in ili our history with the exception of tho the war period ilow how much of the increase lit in tho cost of government federal state and local can be laid to waste Is problematical but thero Is no ques lues tion but that it runa run into the hundreds of millions for there are scores of bureaus commissions and inflated governmental payrolls ninny many of which simply duplicate tile tho work of others wo vo jac fmc permitted the government to go into various tax exempt business ventures in competition with the livelihoods liveli hoods of private citizens who are forced to pay tile tho taxes to maintain tile the competition more moio and more money la Is going into tax exempt government bonds instead of taxable labor employ ing tile result to la increased unemployment anil flat dla dis tress Ili stroy shows allows ninny examples of taxing it people until they ro re pudiano tax tn obligations unless ill all units of government retrench it la Is hot ot to force foice such a tn lit in our own country |
