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Even if we assume that the people, through their representatives in the Congress, will accept new and higher taxes, it seems a grim * victory when we balance the budget at a level of $77.1 billion a year in federal spending.
As the President pointed out in recommending this much spending, the figure would be $12.4 billion higher than in 1955, “an average increase of almost $2.5 billion a year.”
Chairman Clarence Cannon of the House Committee on Appropriations has been in Congress since 1923. He has seen many budgets. His committee has the job of passing on each expenditure proposal. Mr. Cannon, keeping his eyes glued on the spending figure of $77.1 billion, said this:
‘‘This budget for fiscal 1960 tops all previous record budgets from President Eisenhower. It? proposes spending far beyond any previous Eisenhower budget submission—even beyond the recordbreaking peacetime h u d g e t submitted just a year ago. It is $5 billion beyond the budget against which the people, and even the Administration itself, rebelled only two years ago.”
I remember my mail > ot two years ago, in the weeks following submission of the President’s budget. The people were angry, and insistent on economy; and the Congress reduced sharply the President’s budget figures. This year, most of my budgett mail asks me to support the President—Support a budget which sets another record for recommended spending.
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