Show Where Your Taxes Go How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money in Conducting Conduct ing fag Your Business By y EDWARDC LOWRY Author ton Ups Cloie Clo Banki and end Financial t etc tc Contributor Political a. sod and Economic Articles to Article to Periodical ala and end a writer of ot R d on 00 th the th National Government CM Method Copyright Western N w j j r Union Union I. I WHY YOURE YOU'RE INTERESTED I wIsh wide you au would take what is written here nh a personal report addressed addressed ad ad- dressed directly to you OU from me he me about your business Dont Don't think of ot it or read nd it as an article tt politics remote or-remote or remote public affairs at Washing Washing- ton t ton n It Itis is not not- that at nIl all It Is what I l' l lalk ask alk you to think It It a personal business s report to you relating to to your individual l concerns your pocketbook land and nd your Tour nelra welfare e. e I have no other otter Interest Interest than to tell ten you ou th the 1 exact truth oj 4 A Assume ume that you ou have hil sent me me to Washington to find out for you wl what at your ng agents nt Are are doing how they they they're are re managing your affairs s and spending your mon money y Jt them your ng agents for tor that I Is all nil Ute they are the sore the e the President I the members of ot the the cabinet t the e senators and all nil the members of oCtile the hou house e of t representatives You them you yon pay them anti and you you can ou can fire them You may think of them In deference and a awe aw as as a group of eminent of-eminent statesmen states states- statesmen men or 01 you may call them In flippancy and I too hasty contempt a lot of ot poll politicians But whatever yo you call them they are your hired men They attend to your collective business which is called the public business Query An ArP the they doing It efficiently and aner with a a single single minded minded devotion to your Interests Perhaps the largest t It Item m in the high cost of ot living Is the high cost of government And far and away awny the largest Item in lri the hl high h cost Ost of ot government govern govern- gO government rn ment nt is II the high cost rost of armament preparation tor lor war About DO 90 per percent percent percent cent of all U government I revenues and that means the money taken from you OB iii taxes es goes to pay for wars past pre present prewit nt and future Before Befort I have ha concluded this series of ot articles I exp expect ct to show you yon conclusively con con- conclusively IF that the Jm Impelling motive mothe that Indu Induced d President Harding to call th the present conference cC In n Washington to consider limitation of arm armaments was financial The pressing need of ot considering a proposal for a 1 reduction reduction tion or limitation by agre agreement ment of war wor expenditure was not made anade entirely on the ground of ot moraU morality or righteousness righteous righteous- ness hut but as a plan for cutting down the operating expenses s of ot t the e government govern govern- ment If the United States government were an nn individual we would sa say that It was broke for I its Its' s' s e expenses expenses exceed Its Jb income Your Inte Interest t Is simply this that whatever decision dedsion Is made mad madou you yon ou will have to pay the bill If today today we ve r e didn't have these army and navy y expenses expenses expenses ex ex- you would hove have to pay In n taxes less ress than a year Instead of That means mean's we would have ha about more morea a Ii year to spend on our private needs and pleasures I frankly confess that I would enjoy having four fifths of ot my taxes knocked off Wouldn't you you St Secretary Weeks of the War department department department de de- gave public warning a little while ago that the government would require of ot us ug u about Inthe Inthe in inthe the n next thirty months to meet current current current cur cur- rent expenses and oth other obligations Persons Persona who have given clo close clow study to that possibility say y that th the need will willbe willbe be nearer than I. I The great bulk of that Is for past and prospective war expenditures For this you OU and congress and the Executive departments at Washington are responsible You more than anybody any any- body ouy else for It is 18 your money that Is being spent and you rou can stop It In Its simplest terms the procedure It is this You earn the money congress takes takee it away from you OU In Inthe in the form of t taxes tares and men lien congress and the Ex Executive departments S spend nd it A groat part of it is wasted This Is established shed COD conceded ceded confessed and acknowledged by congress which authorizes the Uie expenditures and ana by bythe bythe the Ire executive officers of ot the government government govern govern- ml ment t who do the actual spending It ItIs Its Is s your money that you have ea earned d dIn In n Y your business on your farm or by bythe he the labor of ot your hands that Is being expended and wasted at Washington Every EvelY cent nt that is extravagantly or needlessly expended by the government govern govern ment you ou could have In your pocket to meet the Increased cost of food lod In ng and clothing doctors' doctors bills bUis and amusements or to put away Woy and save sn og against a rainy day if It you only de deg determinedly and nd that hat governmental extravagance nce should cease cense I can tell you OU some of the conditions of governmental spending and how your money is chucked about and I Ian Ican Ican can an t tell ll you how Irow you cnn can stop It The power ower Is yo years a rs and until you exercise exer- exer cise Ise It waste and extravagance will not stop |