Show tax commission proposes budget for rearmament I 1 J CHICAGO A billion douar dollar a year rearmament program for the united states which would not cost taxpayers A red cent now or in the future Is the prospect held out by the national consumers tax commission k in a message to the quarter mil lion members in 45 states mrs melville mucklestone president declared that it if our local governments would eliminate inefficiency and waste from the administration of their affairs american taxpayers would be saved a sum so large that it would more than offset the to be raised annually through the national defense act which went into effect july I 1 L this seemingly too good to be true solution to a large part of the defense problem Is an actual po possibility mrs mucklestone said tor for the simple reason that the local taxpayer is the same one who toots foots the national tax hill bill and therefore costs of defense measures experts agree that making our city town county and other local government governmental govern men al units thoroughly efficient ind and honest would cut from 10 to 20 pir per cent from our total local tax bill the leader declared blared cl ared without curtailing essential governmental services I 1 |