Show NEI washington D C lt it Is too much to expect in a campaign year that a state of the union message would escape critical examination ant possibly one reason for tho the chilly reception even among democrats was that the message was not the considered product of the executive and his cabinet carefully worked out to inform congress on oil the grave problems confronting the country Oston ostensibly sIb ly it reflects what poss possibly bly was a synthesis of memoranda from ver loua fous departments accepted and included in the message with scant attention to their inconsistencies or conflicts of interest at any rate that is the current explanation for mr Tr unfortunate message while lie he was calling on oil congress tor for more controls and more regimentation tor for the united states his own state department was urging european countries to ret got rid of controls and return to a system of tree free enterprise ter tor prise it looks as it if president truman wants free enterprise tor for all countries except the one of which lie ho Is president but it was on the tax question that mr truman threw consistency as well as justice and economics out the window altogether ilia hla tax proposal proposals propos alIs Is as phony as a 40 bill last year he vetoed the republican tax reduction bill on tile the grounds that it was inflationary a r y prices aro are higher now but by some miracle his own t tax ax reduction would not be inflationary A tax cut of 40 per taxpayer tax payer or voter would be offset by higher taxes on corporations hence mr truman proposes no tax cut at all he would take the same amount of revenues out of the nat dat lona fories income by simply shifting the tax load and mr truman did not explain how low corporations could spend more money on expansion pan sion as he urged in another IF part of his message it if their taxes were raised nor did lie he explain liow how higher taxes on oil corporations could tall fall to be reflected in higher air 10 98 ons kanui manufacture ac an and d workers buy the promise everything to everybody ery body technique shown in the message reminds one of the can portrayed in a current movie this candidate Is against inflation against deflation atlon but clovy nthan Y comes out boldly in ili favor of that appears to be mr amri Tr position too |