Show 4 TAXES VERSUS INCOME apologists tor for the growing burden of taxation often state that the rise in taxes when measured by the e rise in our income is not so important as it seems yet a recent editorial in the syracuse post standard shows that federal state and local expenditures are now five times as great as they were before the war tax collections con have risen in the same proportion by contrast with this the prices received by farmers for their products are but 2 per cent above the level and tile the real wages received by industrial workers are but 21 per greater the cost of taxation has risen more steadily and more rapidly than other costs borne b and individuals where riot not so long ago a national debt of one billion dollars was regarded as being dangerous we now face a federal debt of over all units of government have gone on a sv spending ending spree and have doled out billions of dollars much of which has been been used for projects that were neither necessary I 1 nor desirable they have issued bond after bond apparently not realizing that the bonds which amount to mortgages on all property must eventually be paid PLUS INTEREST by direct or indirect taxat taxation lon of the people I 1 taxes savings they menace jots end and in investments ves mens they chev strike directly git at ahe he welfare of every work worker er ewery every farmer tar nier ev everyone ery I 1 who ow w s a home or la ia a dollar in he bank rising taxation la Is a towering barrier in the t paux pai of recovery i |