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'Something For Nothing*
Keeps Taxes' High
You know that you can’t keep '(rawing money out of your hank account without ever putting any in. The hank doesn’t play that way. This is also true of Federal financing. Every dollar spent must sooner or latef'be collected ip the form of taxes.
Many of these taxes are hidden, such as the $2.44 you pay yn a 5 ’ * radio, or the f>2 cents on ■■ average alarm clock. These are in addition to the direct' taxes of which the average citizen is pain fully aware.
Tax money is necessary to run our government. But all too much of it is wasted by inefficiency, dup Iication of effort, overlapping of Federal agencies, or appropriat .ons for services to pressure groups.
Heretofore, no one has known how much these government ser vices cost us through waste and inefficiency. But some surprising facts have been revealed by th» Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. This twelve-man, bipartisan Commission was created by Congress with the approval of the President. At the suggestion of Mr. Truman, former President Hoover was made its Chairman The Army, Navy, and Air Force asked for $30 billions of annronria
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