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Show Do You Want To Cut Your Federal Taxes? Slash Government Cost If your personal or business expenses ex-penses go up and your income and efficiency come down this year at the same rate as that of the Federal Fed-eral Government, you will be in the hands of the sheriff at an early date. Workers, farmers, and businessmen business-men from Maine to California know this. The answer is in the Report of the Commission on the Organi-zation Organi-zation of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. This twelve-man, bi-partisan Commission " was unanimously created by Congress Con-gress with the approval of the President. At the suggestion of Mr. Truman, former President Hoover was made its Chairman and Secretary Secre-tary of State Dean Acheson. Vice Chairman. The late president Franklin D. Roosevelt long had advocated ad-vocated such a reorganization of the government. There is a two-fold purpose behind the effort to reorganize the Executive Branch of the Government: Govern-ment: One the elimination of in-, efficiency caused by overlapping and duplication; two this should lead to a reduction of your taxes. If our Government can save from three to four billion dollars a year by more efficient methods of conducting con-ducting our business, failure to act is stupid short-sightedness. Action, however, depends upon the President and Congress. The President has already submitted a number of reorganization recommendations. recom-mendations. The Congress has adopted several. of these, most' important im-portant having to do with the housekeeping of the armed forces, which save the taxpayer more than $500,000,000 a year. But these are only first steps. There will be more ahead if Congress is made to realize Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer want more tax-saving economies. Congressmen and Senators will vote for just so many of the Commission's recommendation recom-mendation as you, their constituents, consti-tuents, demand. What can you, as an individual, do about it? The answer is to write your Congressman and Senators. Tell them you want the Recommendations Recommen-dations of the Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government made the law of the land. Join the non-partisan Citizens Committee Commit-tee set up to obtain the necessary action to make the Commission's report work. Write to the Citizens Committee for Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government, Gov-ernment, 1421 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 2, Pennslyvania. for more information about the Commission Com-mission Report. Tell your neighbors neigh-bors about it. Make speeches! Make your representatives in Washington act now! |