Show INFLATION HITS EVERYBODY the inflation that has eaten n away nearly half of each american dollar is levying a heavy tribute against every one of us first of all inflation already has destroyed about of the money we appropriated for defense machine guns rifles uniforms air airplanes and ships all cost more now than they did when the armed forces made their original plans more the savings we have deposited in banks have lost nearly half their buying power the insurance which men took out for their families the pensions on which we depend for foe old age these too will pay for only a little more than half of what we expected no one escapes inflation it taxes the housewife when she does her weekly shopping it robs the farmer when he buys tools and machinery iti it strikes at the manufacturer who produces those farm imp implements lemei ats the only way to avoid inflation is to prevent it by sound taxation and frugal government spending |