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Show A CASE FOR THE SHERIFF . Taxpayers can kick about high taxes, but little good it will do them if they continue to measure the performance of their elected representatives solely by their ability to push through spending programs that benefit local constituents. ' A U. S. Representative, George II. Mahon, chair- man of the House Committee on Appropriations, declares, de-clares, "Following the right course in national fiscal affairs is not alone the decision of government. The will to bend to the job of containing inflationary pressures must spring from all segments of the economy econ-omy from business, industry, labor, the people generally. Everybody has a stake in it. Everybody has an obligation to restraint and discipline . . , Men have recognized from Ihe beginning that one of the chief dangers to the stability of popular government govern-ment is that it will throw away or erode its self-restraint and discipline." 1 Current debates on the elimination of a number of Job Corps centers throughout the United Slates is a case in point. It appears that everybody is willing will-ing to eliminate the unit somewhere else but here, and that goes for Utah as well. j Taxpayer's revolt by people who want the "other "oth-er fellow" to make the sacrifice is about like the spendthrift who thinks he can beat the bill collectors collect-ors if he refuses to pay his bills. He soon becomes a case for the sheriff. |