Show PAUL MALLON treasury juggles its figures PRESIDENT RESIDENT TRUMAN found the lost figures in his fiscal midyear budget review although dollar volume of business and income have been increasing since january no one around the tria treasury sury has been able to find the figures showing how much this would increase receipts and thus lustily justify the republican tax reduction wien when the june jane 15 quarterly income taxes came in to the treasury till the democratic actuaries should have been able to estimate immediately how much more money money they would take la in this present year than they had figured but the republican tax reduction bill was then under consideration r in congress so the actuaries lust just looked dumb and pointed to the dally daily treasury statement chichis which chis Is au an unrevealing ealing generalization of 0 matters fiscal by june SO 30 this statement showed receipts were actually down the he first six months of this year ovar over last instead of up above the b budget calculations cu even et at the fiscal year end treasury secretary snyder merely estimated the surplus larger than expected for the closing year and warned against tax reduction as you will recall by this little fiscal ruse UK the democrats caused the republicans to use the six month old budget estimates of last january which kept them on the he defensive and forced thern them to justify any tax reduction redaction by the amount of economies they could make |