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Do You Want To Cut

Your Federal Taxes?

Your Wasted Taxes

Nii reasonable man questions the t <1 for taxes to pay the cost of

.vi rnmental services. Everyone should be willing to pay a fair -hare of his income for that purpose. But nobody wants to underwrite extravagance—in the home, in business or in government.

The bi-partisan Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, created by Congress with the, approval of President Truman and headed by former President Hoover, has provided a chart for the elimination of governmental extravagance and waste.-- --

This past year, because of dup luation and overlapping in the Armed Services we wasted about one billion dollars out of the fifteen billion spent for National Security.

In 1948 two agencies planned to budd the same dam in nearly the same place at Hell’s Canyon, Idaho. E: eh set of plans cost about $250,<tOO. The plans differed by approximately 75 million dollars in. estimv.ted cost of erection.

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