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Show THE PEOPLE MUST HELP Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, in an address in Los Angeles, warns the Aemrican people that never again will federal taxes be less than $3,000,000,000 a year, and says that probably in a few years they will be more than that. With such and annual overhead staring us in the face, it would seem the height of folly for either states or nation to burden the taxpayers with socialistic undertakings which involve the government govern-ment in industrial activity in various forms, such as advocated by so-called progressive, untra-progressive political leaders. The best way to keep the tax bill down is to keep the government out of business, reduce the official overhead at every point possible, do away with the issuance of tav-exempt bonds which now offer a loophole for billions of dollars of wealth to escape taxation, and to ifght for business administration in every department of government govern-ment from the smallest school district up to the nation itself. If our taxes now are the lowest they will ever be, according to Mr. Smoot, what figures will they mount to if the people fail to curb the desires of tax-eating officialism? |