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Show PAUL MALLON Treasury Juggles Its Figures PRESIDENT 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 treasury has been able to find the figures showing how much this would increase receipts, and thus justify the Republican tax reduction. When the June 15 quarterly income taxes came in to the treasury till, the Democratic actuaries should have been able to estimate immediately how much more money they would take in this present year than they had figured. But the Republican tax reduction bill was then under consideration con-sideration in congress, so the actuaries just looked dumb, and pointed to the daily treasury statement, which is an unrevealing generalization of matters fiscal. By June 30, this statement showed receipts were actually down the first six months of this year over last, Instead of up above the budget cal- j dilations. Even at the fiscal year end, Treasury Secretary Snyder merely mere-ly estimated the surplus larger than expected for the closing year and warned against tax reduction, as you will recall. By this little fiscal ruse, the Democrats caused the Republicans to use the six-month-old budget estimates of last January, which kept them ; on the defensive and forced them to Justify any tax reduction by the j amount of economies they could make. . j |