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Show Legislatures Busy The legislatures of forty three states are now at work In an effort ef-fort to sclve the problems of taxation, tax-ation, unemployment relief and economy through various governmental govern-mental reorganizations. In practically every state, the people peo-ple are complaining of the excessive burden of taxation and demand instant in-stant relief, which is well nigh impossible. im-possible. In many states, the pell-mell pell-mell rush to economy imperils certain cer-tain governmental functions that are proper and beneficial and some of these will topple under the attack. at-tack. However, most of them will be back on the job within the next decade and the harm that is done will be only temporary. An interesting phase of the present clamor is the interest being be-ing taken in governmental affairs by men and women who gave little or no thought to the subject a few years ago when they were "riding high." Whether their activities ac-tivities will be translated into a permanent and intelligent interest inter-est in the affairs of government remains open to question, but most of us hope that such will be the case. The average citizen should not lose sight of the fact that taxation taxa-tion today is burdensome becauss of the depression. In good times a few years agn the pubi3 was quick to applaud those who carelessly care-lessly and profligately spent public pub-lic funds and issued bonds to rapidly ra-pidly improve existing conditions and facilities. Today they are paying pay-ing the piper because they were not interested in government when extravagance was a fetish. |