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Show Tax Bill Authorizes $1,250 Federal Spending for Every County Worker When Congress adjourned last month, it authorized a new high peacetime spending that will amount to approximately $1,250 for every wage earner in Iron county. K. L. Irvine, vice president, Utah Lumber Co., Salt Lake City who today released this figure and others compiled by the National Na-tional Association of Manufacturers, Manufac-turers, declared that failure of the federal government to cut down on unnecessary' spending means every Utahn's share of the national debt amounts to approximately ap-proximately $1,320.00. "New tax bills passed since the outbreak of the Korean war added a burden of $708,000 to Iron county's share of the cost of federal government in 1952, yet we still see no effective attempt at-tempt being made to cut down on spending and pay off the national na-tional debt," Mr. Irvine charged. "In eighteen out of the Tiist 20 years, our government has spent more than it took in," he explained. ex-plained. "If the average citizen ran his financial affairs this way, he'd be rated as an irresponsible irres-ponsible spendthrift." Mr. Irvine announced that the National Association of Manufacturers, Manufac-turers, an organization of more than 17.000 American business firms, is now engaged in a nation-wide campaign to stop waste in government and get the country back on a pay-as-you-go basis. "There is no easy, painless pain-less way to do this," lie said, "bill going bankrupt isn't easy either, and that's the alternative we face, both as individuals and as a nation, unless every one of us decides right now to do something about the situation. We must demand that the government gov-ernment stop all unnecessary non-defense spending and start balancing the budget." He pointed to recently announced an-nounced government plans to i "get and spend now more than' $2,000,000,000 of the income tax money to be collected next year" as a frightening example of the way Utah wage earners and their fellow Americans are "being spent into deeper and deeper debt." "It's way past time," he said, "for our government to get its financial house in order and build the strong economy we need to insure our country's survival. sur-vival. Unless we take action immediately, im-mediately, the combination of over-powering taxes and swelling swell-ing inflation will bankrupt us and the nation. That is why the National Association of Manufacturers Manu-facturers plans to see that every community is given the facts." He urged every local organization organiza-tion to make government spending spend-ing and financial policies its "number one order of business" for discussion and action. |