Show Looking Ahead I By GEORGE S. S BENSON President National Education Program Congressman Wilbur D. D Mills l is highly respected in these parts as friend and md neighbor and admired for having having having hav hav- ing risen very near the top lop in political life liCe Our Congressman Congress Congress- man usually proves out in the crises to have convictions decd der derived derived de de- de- de r rived cd from principle rather than expediency enc This puts a politician in the statesman class and Mr Mills stood up recently to a height to which not every Congressman is willing to stretch Our Congressman Congressman Congressman Con Con- gressman knows his w way a y around AS CHAIRMAN IAN of the House Ways and md Means Ieans Committee Representative Mills has had to listen to all kinds of nonsense nonsense non non- sense from the Keynesian sycophants sycophants sy sy- sy of the tion He has done this for a year ear with the best of manners man man- man manners ners even en though the Harv Harv- Harvard Harvard ard speech e economic con ami c t myths of the Chief Executive Executive tive must have brought inward pain When the Wa Ways ays s 's and Means Committee cleared its 11 billion billion bile bil bil- bil lion tax cut bill Chairman Mills sent along with the thc bill his declaration of intent in realty the chairman's own philosophy of tax reduction and revenue legislation A FEW DAYS earlier however however how how- ever the President had apparently apparently ap ap- ap taken a reading of public opinion Mr Kennedy sent out a call caIl for severe restraint restraint re re- re in the preparation of next years year's budget The budget et et however will likely ask for Cor billion because of the thc built in momentum of spending spending spending spend spend- ing proposals already passed or still being proposed This was the tighter rein being promised by President Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Ken Ken- nedy a couple of weeks earlier carlier in a letter to Mr Mills him him- self Filled with ifs Us and md futures futures fu runs the tures turcs and long runs long promise held out eventual balancing balancing balancing bal bal- of budgets in a full Cull employment economy r educing e e- dueing fiscal deficits holding down the debt and limiting spending to important national national na needs Except for reservation of opinion as to what constitutes in Administration viewpoint surely must be concession to the approach of election year and to the serious public concern concern con con- cern about federal spending Question with the electron election out of the way and a tax cut assuring annual deficits until the boom revenue starts rolling in what then Will the still be willing willing wil wil- ling to hold down the spending spending spend spend- ing OR DOES the White House I believe it has alre already dy introduced introduced intro intro- I enough new spending ideas to broaden sufficiently the tremendous power powel of the federal government If the government plans to continue its call for Cor spending can taxes taxes taxes tax tax- es stay down In a day when one out of six workers is employed employed employed em em- by government fed federal cral eral state and local and government spends 1 out of every 5 spent for Cor goods and services can the private sector sec tor ever recover With 1 out of every of personal income income in income in- in come being made by direct government go taking 35 per pel cent of the national income as revenue revenue rev rev- how long until we shall pronounce it socialism It is in this context that the statements of Rep Mills l 1 offer a serious challenge to eYer every American No government activity is to depend for fOl its justification on the amount it contributes to the total spending spending spend spend- ing of the economy because we prefer to reduce taxes and allow individuals and business concerns in their own right to tomake tomake to make that contribution There is no Curth further r justification tion for an indifferent altitude attitude alti atti- tude toward wasteful inefficient inefficient government activities merel merely because they incidentally incidentally incident incident- ally give employment THESE statements comprise Section One of the bill and the they assert the purpose of Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress to lo use revenues from an expanding economy to reduce deficits balance the budget and cut the public debt In explaining this o a n Rep l 1 Mills said he meant that Congress should reject one possible road toward expanding expand expand- ing the economy the lithe increase in government r e road Congress he said must not try tn to lo ravel both bolh roads at the same time The bill would reaffirm the balanced budget as the guiding guiding guid guide ing criterion for management of the finances of the federal government Mr 1 Mills 1 said His lIis definition of fiscal responsibility responsibility Conducting the fi finances finances fie fi- nances of the federal government government govern govern- ment in such a way that a 3 balanced budget can be and andis andis is achieved It is too bad that Representative Mills has not been heard by the llie White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House more consistently |