Iron County Record | 1948-12-23 | Page 4 | Commission Elimination May Not be a Cure-All

Commission Elimination May Not Be a Cure-all As Congress and the State Legislature prepares to meet, and as city and county governing bodies work on budgets for the coming year, the demands by sections, groups and organizations for more and more expenditures, makes It apparent that more and more taxes must be assessed as-sessed If the demands are to be met even half way. And this at a time when taxes are at the highest level in hlstorv. This constant increase in taxation, and constant seeking seek-ing for new ways of collecting taxes must come to a stop, or people are going to become slaves to government. It seems to us that a change must be made with more thought given to economy rather than seeking new revenue. It Is true that if people continue to demand more and more services from the government, more money must be raised to pay for them. But everyone knows that there is tremendous waste In many of the government services, wastes that must be eliminated. At the same time we question that many of the so-called so-called services are necessary or practical, and it is time that the people begin to eliminate some of them. Too often groups supporting some government expenditure labor under the idea that someone else is going to pay the bill because the money comes from the government. Each group or section is clamoring for some government service ser-vice or project with the Idea that the whole country will pay the bill, but they forget that they in turn will have to help pay for services and projects for all other sections. Everyone feels that we must begin to economize, that there is too much government spending, but no one is willing to economlze-thcy want the other fellow to do it.