Show 1 I aw washington ashington snapshots by james preston preiton it if john public has it comfortable e the file congress rejected J 1 suggestion that the tax tai balle brif e le be broadened it Is a comfort that as likely to be chort lived on oil abe surface nr face the ill III vote on oil the tax bill 1111 might tie be interpreted to indicate that con colf gais has bus put tile the indian sign on tiny liny scheme to collect more taxes that of court courte e does lend comfort to tile the taxpaying mr labile 1 but if one goes lelow below the allem dilemma a behind the stage dow door there la iii plenty there to disturb that feeling k of CIn comfort fort here dihe is the dilemma 1 almost e everyone eu div un capitol hill all will admit at least privately r that the lay day of reckoning Is nt at litins or not far off they know tit alic bill 1111 for the ilie tending orgy of the last few years is coming due they know the only way that bill all can call tie be paid la Is through more faxe tabea they know the lie only source from which holcli morl more taxes can be collected is tile the middle and lower income brackets because the higher brackets are already daggered iby hy an burden and they know that next year Is election electro year the dile dilemma nima Is particularly perplexing plex liis for those thoe In members embers w who h 0 vane to congress only billy last year they lind had none of the fun full of spending but must now share equally the problem of paying the check who what to do about it was as the question lu estion they faced in the new tax bill specifically the proposal they finally filially voted down aown would have ln in creased tile the tax rate on the middle income group and lowered the income groups now escaping a direct taxation would have hare to pay a tax significant la Is tile the fact that the proposal was defeated in the senate by a one vote margin meaning g that there was almost a majority in favor of facing the music now instead of later A recent survey has caused considerable sid erable comment tit at the capalto 1 it was as submitted as part barf of the testimony ony of a witness app appearing rin before the senate committee on education and labor which is studying amendments to the national labor relations act what that survey showed was simply that john public does not believe the 1 national at ional labor relations act or the board which administers it liag has contributed much to the count rys industrial rela alons in tile the survey surrey the public was it naked 4 ed what it thought responsible forthe for alie reduction in the number of strikes from to 1938 only per cent thought thou glit the ion w ans 9 clue to legislation and the q attitude the ile largest percentage thought there were fewer striker in 1038 because liec there was rt at resentment against sl iown strikes the light fight 0 over ver the labor act incidentally produced ia what rateb the crack of the week it was during of 0 labor board chairman Cl airman madden by representative barden quick thinking borth orth carolina democrat chairman madden had pointed rot out that the he labor board had bad yon won wore cases in court than it had lost st to this the north Caroll shot back let me remind afie chairman that justice in the united states 1 i not lot dispensed on oil a percentage basis A few areka ago clil falih ington was wag receiving instructions front from it a certain well educated economist with a flair fr for language this word wizard was convincing everyone concerned that the economic failures fall of the past few yead years were largely hi mental that if you med the right words to des describe C ribe them they hoy so bad after fill all thui tha he explained it witnesses appearing iring before committees called the lie debt an investment it left a good taste in month and there was no damage done one mon men caught on quickly to the new game and it was one of this group who had the last boril word on oil the subject profits he naked innocently oh oust just call rhem h alfin preparation tor foi future taxes 4 since the publication of that re anark in ili tile the papers nothing more has ills been heard from the washington word wizard |