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Show Must Force Tax Reduction One of the most encouraging ' phases of the late campaign was 1 ' the attitude taken by the majority of candidates for public office to- ' ward the cost of government and the need for tax reduction. President-elect Roosevelt has stated that a 25 per cent cut is essential and has pledged his efforts toward to-ward achieving that. Those elected with him have echoed his views. If such a reduction is made it will have an amazingly fine effect on the country not only in the money that will be saved, but in psychological result. There is no question but what the specter of still higher taxes frightens thousands thou-sands of investors and shoves money into safe-deposit vaults and tea pots; that it prevents business from going ahead and expanding that it discourages home building and saving; that, in this time of unemployment, it creates more unemployment, un-employment, more hardship, more distress. Every citizen should demand a sound program to lower taxes. We can do this by not asking for expenditures ex-penditures that touch only a smaU part of the country at th? expense of the whole; by taking the broad, rather than the local, view. We can follow up federal' reductions by forcing state, county and municipal governments which are the most expensive of all and public officials, to observe the example. In short, the time and the opportunity- for tax reduction re-duction are here And it must be had. |