The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-02
THE CURSE OF HIGH TAXES

Tn one of the most practical and forceul editorials pub
shed in many months the Saturday Evening Post recently
discussed the appropriate subject of taxation The
porance of relieving the burden of taxation general and OF
Federal taxation in particular pointed out in that
will impress the minds of all readers is true as Editor
Lorimer says
Everything is being debated except taxes Everybody
is economizng except the tax gatherer.'
GAS a rule, the tax gatherer OF the tax spenders
and naturally his point impes the necessity Of
higher rather than lower The spender of public
is impressed with the Importance of the service for which the
money is spent He magnies its value to the public and
perhaps sincerely believes that the service should be extended
rather than curtaed- He is constant booster of taxes If
there to be check the raising of public revenue and
its expenditure the check must through the activity of
private citizens who make their wishes known in
that cannot be misunderstood
The editor of the Saturday Evening Post hardly
rect in his statement that Since the beginning of the world
war; Legislators in almost every branch of Government have
been running hogwild taxing and spending spending and
taxing 1t not the Legislative branch of the Government
that hogwd taxing and spending Records will show
that the President and Members of his Cabinet during the
world asked for of money and for
tcay unlimited authority the representation that both
necessary for the winning of the With doubt
Congress granted practically all requests for money power
choosing to give the Administration the benefit of doub.
rather than take the chance of handcappng those who
charged with the management of military operations.
"But, the Amistice had been signed and it
clear that the Congress acted restraining
influence the executives In the first after the sign
ing OF the Amistce Congress cut 81 out of the
demands of the executive departments In the
cut out billion dollars The present Congress yet
made its record of appropriations but there every indication
that expenditures authorized will be far less than the
requested by the administrative branch of the Government
is unfair and believe the editor of the Saturday Evening
Post will admit it, further reflection, charge Legislators
with responsibility for taxing and spending Congress
always called to make up deficits which the
departments have incurred in of appropriations by
Congress- aM
"But this is minor matter On the whole the POSTS
editorial not only sound but timely 1t is true stated
that high taxes mean loose methods and extravaganza
agement incompetent planning wasefu execution The
man who has other peoples money spend very likely to
seek means Of spending rather than saving it. full treasury
is always temptation not only to useful expenditure
useless expenditure An effective therefore, securing
the earliest possible reduction of is first to compel the
executive departments to reduce their expenditures and then
cut the that there will of funds in
the Treasury to tempt Federal officials to incur obligations
which the public eventually must pay
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