Comfortable, Taxpayer? Editor. The Farmville Herald: The national budget has reached such gigantic proportions that the total is beyond the comprehension of taxpayers. Not many people have had experience with even one billion of anything. Perhaps this will help to visualize the meaning of the proposed budget of $T1.8 billion: Assuming the budget in silver dollars, it would take 1,292 freight trains of 70 boxcars each, and each car loaded with 800.000 silver dollars to transport the amount. If further visualization is needed, j $71.8 billion in silver dollars would j make 72 piles 1,500 miles high. And i in case you have a billion dollars and only one billion) hurry around j to your bank and invest it. even at only two per cent, and you can sit back and enjoy life on an income of nearly $50,000 a day. Do you still feel comfortable as a taxpayer? Think it over before you I answer. C B Kiddle Washington. D. C.
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