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Do You Want To Cut

Your Federal Taxes?

Overlapping Bureaus

The Executive Department of the Federal Government has grown from small beginnings into a mighty colossus composed of 1,812 separate bureaus and agencies employing 2,090,554 civilian workers with an annual payroll of more than $6,000,000,000.00.

This growth was haphaxard. What happened was that when a job needed to be done, an agency was hurriedly set up by executive order, or created by Congress, We are now paying for all these mistakes.

On July 7, 1947, Congress authorized, by unanimous vota, the launching of the greatest effort yet made to plan an efficient, economical government reorganisation. With the approval of President Truman, a bi-partisan, twelveman commission, headed by former President Hoover, was eatablished. This Commission found many discouraging examples of the confusion in our government machinery, and has made concrete suggestions to correct these ills.

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