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Show BIGGER THAN A BILLION Government is not a cross between King Midas and Santa Glaus. Instead of turning to gold, everything the government touches is tagged with a tax bill of some kind. Only playing the role of tax-collector can it play the role of "Santa Glaus". If people would understand this fact, the present drift toward national bankruptcy would be reversed re-versed overnight. Continuous repetition of astronomical figures has caused a government deficit of several billion dollars each year to glance off the mind of most of us like water off a duck's back. The difference between millions and billions has become be-come "microscopic", just like those microscopic pinpoints of light we call stars. To the comimon citizens, a million dollars dol-lars is as nebulous as the stars let alone a billion. Stand a billion dollars alongside a first-class star and bring them, close ernlugh for the average man to get a good look, and it is questionable which would startle him the most. As a matter mat-ter of fact, he probably Would not believe what he saw. However, stop him on the street and hand him a bill for $100, payable immediately, for "services rendered" by government, gov-ernment, and he would be up in arms. Unless he happened to be one of the comparatively few Who pay direct income taxes, he would literally hop up and down in anger and demand de-mand to know "what it was all aboutt." Henceforth he would have .a new interest in every public expenditure taxes would mean something to him. Dire the fate of politician who wasted a dollar of this man's money! Give every citizen the knowledge possessed by him and "microscopic" billions would be no more. Public dollais v.ould once again assume their proper proportion. "Astroromic figures" would be kicked out of public bookkeeping! book-keeping! M |