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Do You Want To Cut
Your Fedoral Taxes?
R oad T o The Poor house
America's most popular toy this year is called the "crasher truck.” It is a mechanical gadget which falls apart when it hits anything. Faced with expenses that may hit $52 billion dollars during 1950, our government could fall apart like the crasher truck unless you. as a citizen, apply the brake.
Three years ago, Congress created a bi-partisan, twelve-man Commission to study the waste and duplication of effort in the agencies and bureaus in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. This Commission, approved by President Truman and headed by former President Hoover, has turned in a report which would cut our tax bill three to four billion dollars annually—if the recommendations are enacted into law. This means that it would save you one dollars out of every ten you pay in taxes. Whether you realize it or not, every family in the United States pays yearly, on the average, in direct and hidden taxes, more than $1,000.00 each to support the Federal Government alone.
Congress has already authorised $16,000,000,000 for construction of major projects, and another $30,000,000,000 authorization ir planned.
The Commission has recommended, (1) Creation of an impartia Board of Analysis for engineering and architectural projects, <2| Long-range planning of projects to meet the ebb and flow of economic cycles, and (3) Coordination of all public works. Such prudence might well save the nation from collapse
If you think this march down the road to the poorhouse Fhould be halted, wire your Congressman. Write to the Citizens Committee for Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government, 1421 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia 2 Pennslyvama, for further information. Tell your friends and ne.ghbors! You must act before it is too late!
Be Careful With Fires
During 1949 brush, trash and debris burning caused approximately 30 per cent of the total forest fires in Virginia, Chief Forest Warden J. B. Johnson of Rappahannock county stated recently.
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