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Show AN EXPENSIVE CONGRESS. The $10,250,000,000 appropriated by congress in its recent sess'on was equivalent to over 20 per cent of the total annual income of $49,440,000,-000 $49,440,000,-000 received by all the people of the United States in 1934, according to the Alexander Hamilton institute. It is apparent that this appropriation represents another long step toward a serous financial crisis for which any benefits afforded by the laws enacted will provide poor compensation. compensa-tion. This means, of course, that out of every five dollars earned in America this year, another dollar will be taken from the American people inevitably, in the way of taxes, to pay for the spending orgy of the congress recently recent-ly closed. For it is net to be forgotten forgot-ten that when the government spends a dollar, the dollar has to come from the pockets of the people who go to make up the nation. The only other cour.e is repudiation by inflation, which is even more disastrous, especially es-pecially to the wage earner. Of course there is one compensation. compensa-tion. If the AAA through legislation by this same congress 's able to elevate ele-vate the homely potato to the rank and station of a bootleg product, then perhaps all may be forgiven. But there are some evidences, since the storm of protest arose from potato users, that no funds can be found for putting to effect this legislation conferring a new degree of honor on the humble spud. |