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Show YOUR "SERVANTS" How much a year do you spend on the salaries of your servants? Most of us, of course, employ no servants at all. But we're paying: an ever-rising bill for a special type of servant ser-vant the public servant. During the last fiscal year, reports Tax Foundation, Tederal civilian payroll costs reached an all-time high of 313.6 billion, which works out to $242 for each and every American family. Per family cost in 1947, by way of con-lrast, con-lrast, was only $134. The annual cost of civilian agency payrolls rose 55 -per cent from fiscal 1955 to fiscal 1961, as against only 28 per cent for civilians employed by the Department of Defense. De-fense. It wou'd be interesting to see a b-cakdown showing the proportion of these civilians who are busy spending our tax money on welfare state projects of one kind or another. |