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Show TWO MONTHS' WORK FOR NOTHING. How would the average citizen like to work 61 days without any pay whatever ? The answer is that he wouldn't like it at all. But that, in effect, is what he is doing. Sixty-one days' work out of each year is required to pay the cost of government. In 1924 it was 46 days, and in 1913 about 25 days. The ratio is constantly rising. Carried Car-ried to the inevitable conclusion, it means that in the not too distant future fu-ture the taxpayers will be working for the taxeaters all the time, and for themselves not at all. Every time a new bureau is created, every time a new department comes into existence, a little more of the money we earn finds its way into the treasury. As President Hoover said, to continue con-tinue on the tax road we are traveling is to impoverish the nation. In the last 16 years the cost of government has increased nearly 150 per cent. The results are found in hoarding of capital, capi-tal, industrial retrenchment, unemployment. unem-ployment. The tax issue, in all its phases, is one of the most important problems the American people have ever faced. |