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Show HCPGKTTIXG DOWNWARDS Annual expense of the national government is reported to have been rut three thousand six hundred million mil-lion dollars $3,60 0,0 00,000. This is reported to have been the result of the application of the budget system that has been enacted by congress too good to be true. General Daws, assisted by thirteen prominent business men serving at one dollar a. year, are credited with having accomplished this.. A start in the right direction has been made. The states may follow suit. Cities and counties may catch the fever and economize a little. The budget so far as it draws the assistance of mere taxpayers into the game of making and cutting esti-mtaes esti-mtaes will prove a godsend. Budgets made up of the demands of those who get or spend the money will never reduce the overhead cost ot government perceptibly. When the budget committee is made up fairly of both taxeaters and! taxpayers then some results may be j expected but not before. j Slate budget laws that merely as-i semble the aggregate demands of all the aggregated bodies of sppnders j and officials are a farce. |