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Show Piling Up The Taxes During the greatest depression and period of unemployment since the early nineties, our most expensive ex-pensive peacetime Congress has passed into history. During the few months it was in session, it appropriated over tea billion dollars of public monev. Instead of economy, it spent witn a lavish hand in practically every branch of government. During this period every individual and business was faced with the problem of getting or giving a greater return for every dollar expended ex-pended or received. Authorizing the expenditure ot ten billion dollars of federal revenues rev-enues means that our 125,000,000 people must pay in taxes an average aver-age of $80 each. That means that a family of four man, woman and children is providing $320 to cover the spendings of the last Congress. In addition to this sum, each family must pay the cost of maintaining main-taining the various local governments, govern-ments, city, county and state, which is estimated to be higher than the total of Federal expenditures. expen-ditures. Thus, it can be seen th-it our tax bill has become a very 'real part of the average family overhead. Our political friends who would put government into business in competition with private citizens could better devote their efforts to saving an already over-burdenei tax-paying public some of the dollars dol-lars it pays for taxes instead of possible pennies on some of its daily service or commodity bills. All experience shows that the more government is enlarged outside out-side the actual function of governing, govern-ing, the higher are piled public debt and obligations which, in the final accounting, always fall on the shoulders of the consumer and taxpayer. |