Detroit evening times., 1945-08-28
PAUL
NIALLON
Behind
The News
WASHINGTON, Aug, 27.If

you are LOOKING TOT lDSlue
stuff today skip this one, or, on
second consideration, maybe this
is the inside stuff 70
l Just decided 10 read the
papers like you do today
After all, Why should ! 60 out
worrying my head and digging
up inside stuff when the tax col
lector lust came in and reminded
me that whatever my brain and
energy develop must be taken
by him, IN great part; in fact, IN
whatever part he decides, he
told me.
Those fellows had way about
them IN the Roosevelt admins
tration, a way which avoided me,
because | knew that ihaSmHeh
as l was contestlng for reality
and facts in the face Of An
administration viii h derlded
both, l had better set my book
keeping up on their basis.
Whatever they wanted / gave
them.
II seemed a shorter price than
selling out my individual inde-
pendence Of thought
l figured If the Morgenthau
tax collectors could take me,
any one could.
They knew that and did not
come around. but now they have
come in again, and I do not
mean reasonably, but fero-
clously,
THEY sent a fellow IN here
who says he will take me
regardless of the fact that his
own b1reau set up my tax busi-
ness in the past. There seems
to be a change.
please do not consider this
news, you editors who have
complained | do not carry the
dirt, but taxpayers please take
notice and pay no more than
you are legally required 10.
After all we are paying S45,-
900 900 600 year out Of the
sweat of our browS and minds,
and If the Roosevelt admlnlstra-
ton. with all It's powers could
not take an adverse critic that
way | do not think the Truman
administration can take you
or me-
II has great power but if il
wants 10 destroy the power Of
right. let me be the first 10 fall.
| would not want 10 live in
the kind Of world a tax coll
lector DEGREES for me and
changes
incidentally. we are paying
about S45, 900, 900, 900 year into
this government for the privi-
lege Of having a new CTruman)
tax man come around TO chal-
lenge and destroy what Roose-
welt tax man thought was
impregnahle, asked for and got.
A S / say, this has put me out
~ of the humor Of trying TO
find any inside news today
Why should l work. or why
should any one, when a govern
ment has the power (snd
exercises III to take your sweat
and your energy. in whatever
proportion it decides.
Fairness, Justice, and law do
not mean anything, this tax
agent told me, so why should l
sweat.
Actually he decides what my
income shall be, and changes il
from year TO year to suit his
purposes.
This fellow actually pretends
should disre egard all the
rulings of his bureau in the past
and accept this somewhat
cloudy mind on all propositions.
Why should | work? Why
should any one?
They promise us, they say, an
easy living in luxury at what
ever figure the politicians de-
eide for old age Gm getting old
enough 10 receive anything they
might permit so why work.
Let us all, oppressed people
that we are, just follow the ad-
vice of Mayor LaGuardia, who
said il would be foolish of us
10 cash our bonds and buy any
thing. and what we need is a
government which will pay us
something.
DEGARDLESS Of what l said
~ reasonably Friday. La
Guardla might be irreasonably
right
Why not discourage our capi-
talstic system and let every one
live off the government.
ErapkIN boNn half /. Wind