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Show BUT WE'LL NEVER LEARN THE LESSON. It took the depression to make people peo-ple understand that it is entirely possible pos-sible for government expenses to become be-come so high that taxing the people to meet them becomes an oppressive burden upon the entire public. So long as nearly everybody was making a good deal of money, public expenses were nobody's business. Of course the people took an academic interest in the subject and perhaps growled a bit every time they had to march up to the treasurer's office and give up a good deal of money, but, after all, they had the money to give up and so they forgot the whole matter in a few days and failed to remember it again until next taxpaying time. But when taxes became due and several million people did not know which way to turn to obtain the money to pay their share of government expenses, ex-penses, they began to wonder whether, after all, they had not been making a mistake all these years in permitting permit-ting government costs to mount, year after year. But now that, they have discovered that there is no doubt pbout their having been negligent, v they do not know what to do about it except to demand lower taxes to meet expenses that for the most part are definitely fixed and cannot be lowered pvrppt by special legislation. Rut this attitude is merely a refit re-fit etion of the average man and his family's attitude toward thoir personal person-al affairs during boom times. They did not re fleet that the family income might be reduced. They always had been able to meet their installments eventually, and so they proceeded to buy anything on the installment plan that happened to please their fancy. For transportation purposes a Fidgety Four might meet their needs quite veil, but since the Joneses next door Vj" an Opulent Eight they also Y.;ht an Opulent. Eight. Good times going to last iorevoi ana u any-I any-I ventured to pipe a squeak of V about it, he was promptly a killjoy, a knocker and a tort. Ilesson in this depression is V times of prosperity we should I for times of adversity, but if lik anybody will learn that les-i les-i merely do not know what you if king about. Almost nobody evsr jaarned it, although it has been iJrhtTmany times, and almost no-',.-,:!, ever w-;ll. Even though the weather wea-ther man predicts rain, who carries Vi umbrella if the sun, at the rao-Vimt, rao-Vimt, is shining brightly? |