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Show The Hole in Your Pocket Prerss dispatches frcm Washington state that in the last tw'lve months $7,375,000,000 has been spent, which with the $7,100,000,000, that was spent the preceding year, makes a total peacetime- record spending cf SI 4. 475,000 ,00 J for the pat. two years. Men', j has Uen spent twice as fa.vt as it has been collected from the taxpayers. But all the' spendings and all the borrowed money must eventually be extracted from thei taxpayers pockets. At the end of the new fiscal year, it is estimated the national d lit will be approximately $35,000,000,003. or per capital debt cf $270 on eva-y man, woman and child in th:- country. coun-try. These figure:! are eo staggering in size that cm? cannot grasp them. But the individual tax ills or var ous kinds that will soon be coming due, can be reridily undT 'tood by every taxpayer who i- pockets will be emptied emp-tied in crder to pay them. Colonel Robinson, of the Yakima, Wash'ngton, Republic, in answering a " reactionary" ciM7eni who asserted that taxpayers 'hould have a voce in how their money is -pent and that shoull be spnt as economically a.3 possible, raid: "The idea that tax money should b" sp'rit economically is just as far out ol date a. th? oth?i. If tax i: ore;' were spent economically, tijoe wouldn't be more than hall of it srent, and that fact aion-. is suf-(ic;cni suf-(ic;cni to cend mn thi idea. The prr vailing thought is to spend public lunds iillpmrmniinllv tr, fhcir mnvo funds can be ia.'i d and spent, thus putting more men y into circulation and increasing the purohasuig power pow-er cf thr people.." Sarcastic as is this paragraph of the Colonel's, it state , a distressingly plain truth. Its lucidity is postively flawless. Some; day the people will wake up too the fact that th y pay the bill for all the "pol tical presents" pres-ents" that are given to them. |