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Show proposal of the secretary of the Treasury and his assistants, which would have lopped over $300,000,000 off the tax bill for 1923 if it had been adopted. Politics may be all right as long as it confines itself to political matters but it is a curse to a nation when it dips into business. The tax question is a problem of business pure and simple and should-not should-not be a vote getting vehicle for Republican or Democratic politicians. WHO BLOCKS TAX REDUCTIONS? Woulc! you hire a doctor to fix an automobile? Would you hire a cook to arrange the financing of a new hotel? No, you would not. Then why is eve:ry Congressman and every Senator supposed to be capable of figuring out a better tax plan for financing our national na-tional governme nt than are the experts in the United States Treasury who are responsible for a sound financial policy for this nation? Men not capable of financing a corner grocery store feel more fully qualified to inflict upon the public their ideas of running a six or seven billion dollar ar .nual government budget than do the experts in the treasury department. The people have bt ?en crying tax reduction but instead of giving giv-ing it to them, our rag- chewing politicians in Congress have been fighting out so.me plan ,V.hat would override the very business like |