Show where your taxes go how uncle sam spend spends yow money in conduct ioa your Busa br EDWARD G 1 Y ataw ma upa 71 tea a ua twill wa md X W aatu to wee 11 od ad a W writ of bald BB ld a tr ik put at adf a 14 mato C frack www 1 I umi V MAGNITUDE OF BILLIONS I 1 have been throwing the incredible figures at your head bead neither you nor anybody else hae has the faintest ain test conception I 1 of what one billion collars really ie Is ne e peak familiarly of hil billions lions ax a commonplace but moat most of us lire live our lives live 1 in ter terras of hundreds I 1 haire have shown you that every one of us man woman aid achl chlis j in this country paid last year each t rani ward the support ot of the gove government ameal of course every person does not pay pity exactly pa 77 A A brent great many pay wore more and some pay lesa less but thoa who pay the most try to take it t ont out vt of those who pay the leat least by increasing 1 the prices of what they have to rell pell or tr of services rendered or work performed eo 0 o that it averages out at TT some pay more thea tac their share others pay less 1 this Is caled an incident of taxa taxation Uon the whole point Is that we all pay day that we a pay now more than we ever paid before and there Is I 1 no present prospect ot of our an ng lse tor for some years u fn in iray fh ve w hive have 1 ell I paid our lre in the world war the net coat cost of that enterprise to date baa ax been or including our loan loans to foreign governments which have not been repaid 33 WO 00 theae these are treasury tria sury figures 10 0 o not t let conr oar eyes run over then lightly arop billion I 1 tour hundred d and ofte fe 1111 pinion lon dollars Is nn an almost sum the cot of burning the government Is no around S a year the expel is eny any thai lor for the net next two or thice year the cost of the government bill not descend bew abent u ear I 1 aou clearly to understand 64 the magnitude the over sire ca 0 ah h i urns aff 1 f irr bat vui miti out ID fit the knet knowing what a a billion I 1 let et we ine tr ti t i to mo brins it honie home to iou ou it Is now ro iichi IM 1020 0 seine silica the tile birth of christ e tie not kaow roii pece Iv ond and mccu rat ratify ly at lint hour and on what iny lay carto v vii iq tarn hut but under the them gre gorlan calendar according to which re pow now reckon time thue we ve hive a record tit bf the th days sinie since january Jani inri fist fi fl st f the ator one anna domini Donil ril krom the nf of the year one to jin lin ia 1 there elapsed eil about 07 dav or to reduce it further 10 SW WO houri i v atch bo ng reduced again u minutes I 1 iiii nl ash ou to te lemein member ber that the hole 1114 history torr of the odlin bioni the fiat second if of tin the year ont to the he last I 1 of the dear I 1 nit n bei awn it into I 1 WS 14 i now ow let us suppose tant with fth the I 1 ri N 1 n nt rf it tic e how in de Q gilted states bad lind a i A 1 I nt at ferin blew alem on oil tl ti first 1 dal of or tho tile icar one with on to pm PAI out 5 a d tin t nail t idill anulta awl and hol d 11 4 acht jm 1 it through the cen fo po e it li ira irs tin ly 10 t e he hp had lind been garen to ti start him on his hi iong spell rf 0 that Is 1 one estlin estimate ate ut of vie e bin suni that it U co cot cott tt to nn rui ru i till dinv orm mirent tient in on the of annar 1 10 19 11 this mythical ashure ins ing olliver 0 in money nun nt at th rate of 1 a minute tae anly aly not anil would still 1 I une one 0 of the richest men in the nor it a fr rr he have left ou han danl I 1 sa 3 W of the original aum sum avina out nut nt the rate of 0 V 5 a min ite lor more th tinn thin in 1000 vears be he noulia not hale kept kent pace lince with the cost f lili kepp of tiia 4 TO vent for the ore u penile anle ear 1010 suppose thia this pet 1 ler tier had been author autho tred to ltv rut ut at the rate of 23 a minute L he be tnt urles he ile aull boult not hae hap on january 1 1021 2021 paying for our ciare 1 of the tile coat cost of 0 the orld war by b some WO he ile would hae that much lett over after paeng out ab lie ile would have bed beld be D paving out nearly 40 cents every ile end cud the clock ticked for or more than 19 centuries without being able to discharge charge e our share of the war ar lost oat do yon you ever bother your hend bend about bundels and bushels of dollars that iou contribute to the support of the you earned them you know whether hether i I 1 they bey came desall v or 11 at el do you know where the go after chev leve leive you vou how the are trent whether wisely or foolishly it a til all you your money contribute l for the proper and 1 eco econ ornic ilc condict ct of your business biness tl TI ere Is a no r uch such thing as government anney the government never earned a cent you own tho the government and yoa you epport it and it Is merely ad administered mints by men ot of your election selection I 1 have always been puzzled about wh why you lc do not take an active and eaga cage aaret 1 la what hot become becomes you money that you pay in taxes but lets go on and mad set dowa 0 0 abes |