Evening star., 1944-10-30
|Bricker Says Party
Favors Tax Rate Cut
To Provide Jobs
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Ey the Associated Press.
FLINT, Mich. Oct. 30 Gov.
John w. Bricker declared today
that reduction in rates Of taxation
would facilitate payment of Fed
eral Government debt expected to
aggregate $500, ,000, ,000, 900 when the
war ends.
The Republican party is commit
ted to such program, Gov. Bricker
added.
"We want taxes reduced SO that
people will be able to work more
for themselves and less for their
Government" he said. I'VE want
taxes reduced also that venture
money will flow into business and
provide good jobs"
Increase in Income Favored.
Gov. Bricker took the position
that an expansion of business and
industry and a resulting increase in
the income Of both capital and labor
as a whole would provide greater
source of Government revenue than
now exists.
Advocating system of reduced
taxation-"on individual incomes, on
corporations, and on consumption
which he said would stimulate busi-
ness and employment, Gov. Bricker
declared:
This in turn will increase the
total national income and make it
possible to liquidate the national
debt with lesser burden on the in
dividual and corporate taxpayer"
Bricker Will Speak Tonight.
Gov. Bricker, who spent most of
yesterday aboard his special train
at Chicago, was scheduled to make
a Nationwide broadcast over the
Mutual System at $50 o'clock to-
night in Detroit on The PAC-
Communist threat to Free Govern
ment and Free Labor"
He also booked speeches today in
Lansing and Pontiac, while the
Bricker train was to stop at Durand
to take aboard Mrs. George Dewey
of Owosso, Mich, mother of Gov.
Dewey.
In his first Flint address, Gov.
Bricker asserted that. before taxes
are reduced, the cost of Government
must be cut.
Recognizing this need" he con-
tinued, the Republican platform
promises the voters to eliminate
from the budget all wasteful and
unnecessary expenditures and exer-
else the most rigid economy in gov
ernmental expenses"
This, he declared, would mean a
"dismantling of bureaucracy" and
reputation of some other un-
American theories sprung on the
public by the New Deal crystal
gazers.
COP Against Federal Financing.
For example," the vice presiden-
tial candidate added. "the Repub-
lican party does not believe that
Government financing of business
is superior to private credit, or that
Government officials can be better
servants to their fellowmen than
private citizens"
Referring to what he described as
Democratic administration attempts
at financing prosperity by deficits"
Gov. Bricker remarked:
Government alone cannot create
sustained purchasing power. The
Republican party likewise knows
that when Government undertakes
to do these things, our taxes and
national debt increase, and that an
army OF officials are put on the pay
roll to annoy and confuse people"
Tonights appearance in Detroit
will wind up 10,000-mile Western
campaign, covering more than
score of States, which Gov. Bricker
began October /. He will spend to-
morrow in Columbus, the Ohio cap
ital, and on Wednesday begin sec
ond swing into the East.
The new Eastern trip, it was an
nounced last night, will include Ohio,
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey
and Delaware, in which Gov. Bricker
will deliver q total 1f 16 enaorhee