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vv" ■' ‘ >•'/ . ", • ■ ,.V>* !l - ' ■' , * . . Who asked you to pay for electricity usad by people you never even heard of, a hundred or a thousand miles away? ~ ~ Nobody! But you_ favored people and hundreds of privileged businesses using electricity >3 . from certain federal power systems. Your taxes helped build those systems. Your taxes are used to subsidize service to their customers. : ■' •i- -•;/ v' -• Who asked you to foot the bill so that this country sould have socialized electricity? ■*. " : . /Nobody! Yet, there are 72 federally owned power systems already in , operation, under construction, or authorized at a total cost of over 10 ' ; billion dollars—and hundreds more are planned at a total cost of about 60 billion do!1ars. That’s your money that’s financing socialism! J.-.+ ,.‘-4. i ■ v»i ' .v*. . Who asked you for permission to keep on building expensive socialistic power systems when every tax dollar and every pound of critical material is needed for defense? . Nobody! But the backers of socialized power are planning to use more of your tax money to ■wjm - iv ; -ex^.'Slr.TiN*. further into useless and killing competition - with business-managed ,* V A '■■■■.'r - ,’-H •41„V 777 ' 7*7 •' “ ■ TV'*/ V*1’ • ’’ ,7' 7 7V:"'T .'. ■.■■'■'.."■i.V ■' - Who asked you whether you have enough electric power dr net? ISM#?: ' ■>_' : ■■ tMiyNobody! The “planners” who favor sodalized electricity speak vaguely. of a “power shortage.” Yet, the business-managed companies have more px > than doubled’this nation's power supply since Pearl Harbor. And ;v they’ve got a lot more coming! :-,n/ .7 : /if// - V ■ ■ • -mm COIUSS ASCHBT—CIO S*■*»*—> Tkm. . . v * v: - --..M ; MRi wmiiw am . - * • * ■ ' • *" ' ' * .. • 7
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