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Show Taxes And Prosperity There is one cloud on the horizon of our industrial progress: the menace of increasing local taxation. For a number of years past we have witnessed a period of growing federal economy and tax reduction. Yet this has failed of its purpose because of the high cost of municipal, county and state governments. govern-ments. Commenting on this, the Florida Times Union says that "it is a fact that can not be changed by argument or discussion, that the only way to keep from spending more money than should be spent, is by cutting down expend. This applies to the state as wen ss to the individual, and the state that : spends unnecessarily or extravagantly i is more to blame for running into d:b' than the individual, foi by imposing an I unnecessary burden of debt on the people, the state commits a wrong in the commission of which the people i did not participate, and concerning which they were not consulted, generally general-ly speaking. An exorbitant tax rate is the most effective ef-fective possible barrier against a rcm-munity's rcm-munity's industrial progress. Civic ventures that plunge towns into debt are burdens, not improvements. Personal Per-sonal and general prosperity must com? from economy and sane logical administration admin-istration of finances. |