The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
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It's income tax time and sym
chronizing very nicely we have the
Presidents budget message, reach
ing an all-time high.
There will be bigger budgets be-
fore there are smaller ones and
there will be bigger income taxes
before there are lower ones.
This is not pleasant to contem-
plate and it will be still less pleas
ant to pay.
But you may ask yourself the
question: "What's to be done about
it? and the only answer you can
come up with is simply, pay.
That is, unless you are one of those
unwilling to look the facts in the
face. There will be that kind in
Congress and some of them have
been heard from already.
Several things conspire to force
us to bigger budget totals and high
income taxes.
First and foremost in Russia
that heaven of all the haters of
freedom and the hopers-for-the-
day-when government will do
everything.
We are paying and we shall pay
yet more for the biggest military
and naval establishment we ever
had except in war time. War equip
ment grows ever more complica-
ted and thus ever more costly.
1t happens that most people still
believe the way to keep from being
sliced up is to go armed and pre-
pared.
We, we had better keep the war
big and we'll oiled.
1t is strange and weird thing
that the nation which prates about
being the land of and for the pro-
letariat is the one nation that poses
every minute the threat of war
of conquest. But that is how it is
and we can know no safety until,
in one way or another, that threat
is removed.
1t is not likely to be removed
by the communists, for they believe
devoutly that communism cannot
call itself safe while there is a !
capitalist world around it..
That this is not true the COM
will not believe. In many
ways they are supremely dumb !
and stubborn.
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Every now and then someone
arises to observe that the tension
seems to be diminished-that may
De all will be well.
That would be nice to believe, if
t were true.
There are times, it is true, when
he alarums come with less vigor
out of Berlin. But when those lulls
from Berlin, your atten-
ion is invited to Korea, to China,
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ALASKA!
The soviet outfit plays its own
,une and it puts the emphasis
where it wants it at the moment
md puts notes where it wants it
It the moment and puts notes
where it wants them.
And like it or not-and we do not
ike tive can but listen to the
oviet tune and make our own jig
tep pattern accordingly.
This will not stop this year, so
We must have the big war budget.
But there is something else that
makes for inevitably higher income
axes.
That is the growing demand by /.
he people that they do for them :
elves more things through their
overnment, as the cheapest and
est way.
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President Truman's state-of the
Mon message set forth some C
1ings he wants done. In the cam +
aign he talked for them incess- r
ntly and he has a right to believe .
ne people voted for those things n
hen they voted for him, which S
1ey surely did. a
These things will cost money and
loney comes to governments C
trough taxes. h
OF course some of these things a
ill mean a saving Of money to in v
iyiduals and families, but a lot b
{ people will forget those savings p
nd will remember only the added
tXes. Il
Well, we cannot have benefits n