Show I 1 N D T ran AT I 1 by sam hill A lot of taxpayers who just juat cant understand where all the tax money moncy goes gocs and wonder wonder why ii 11 spile ot of all the new methods of taxation the budget continues unbalanced ani aid governmental outgo continues sever at al millions ahead of income each I 1 month shout glance at page 10 of the october 22 issue ot of the pathfinder it Is there explained where several millions ot of it go each year the article in question deals with the personal expense accounts of 0 congressmen and senators the path tinder finder shows where one funeral party parly cost the amerlean american taxpayers seven thoun sand one hundred and twenty dollars it also tells somi som thing of the items which are included in this little bill somebody in the he crowd got thirsty th and added 30 to the bill for refreshments white another found it urgently necessary to pay for a corkscrew it mould seem judging from some ot of the items llster in the general expense account of congressional fun orals that they mean little of grieci grief or seriousness to anybody except the I 1 taxpayers who are arc forced to toot foot tile the bill the pathfinder classifies these 1 as petty expenditures A less diplomatic and more frank analysis of the practice might classify it as petty graft no party is in a position to point a political finger at any other party in criticizing these practices neither party caa condemn the policy at the total expense of the other nor without getting its own fengers burned perhaps political pailles pal ties should not be to severely criticized tor for tile the acts or of individual members acts for which the parties as such can hardly bo be considered responsible however it does seem that the time Is near at hand when the v voters oters must hold each and every representative of the public interests to a strict acco ait t ability reg regardless of political affiliations iati Jat ions ons any pubic servant who la Is chiefly interested in s ferrii ser arvi rii only himself and his own Is a poor public servant from any aar standpoint and any congressman or senator who helps to add millions of dollars to tin thi burdens of d j voters and tax payers for BUS 1 I imp orlan items as booze an clork corkscrew screws a is hardly a type thao tha is deserving desen ans 1 l f a second trial again the tice department at washington is faced with the necessity of admitting it made another blind move when department officials bials last spring placed their plans before congress for or calling john citizen to account by y means ot of a one cent postage raise they could see pee only sunshine ahead finally they had conceived a plan whereby the poor door farmer laborer unemployed etc could be made to pay a goodly khare of the irich mans tax obligation Postin postmaster ster general browns program of increased postage was a good idea only it work the poor farmer afford the expanse ot of writing whitin letters at the new rate the laborer have anabo dy to write to the hal had neither the price nor the inclination to cap ohp climax those giant corporations the fellows whom general brown and his friends meant to protect from huge tax burdens immediately adopted tile the policy of 0 protecting themselves by an elmost almost universal use of postal cards they cut their postage bill iu du halt half exclusive of 0 additional savings lu li cliv elpes letterheads etc the result has been discourage discouraging as well as surprising to the department as well as to many congressmen postal receipts have dropped several million dollars since the now rate went into effect department officials it is are anxious to insist that the next restore the original first class rate of two cents per ounce PT |