Evening star., 1949-06-05
Congress Shows Worry
Over Notions Finances
Feeling Grows That DssSss>Srsatsns
VIII Lead to RankrSrsey
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spend elect rleSS formula a. the sats Nj.
AopkIak which expressed S5lh camEtsss as.
cQiacy The shc4s New pvSl posEseA Egssi.
osophy nAa prrsA4lec Psghaps It SI.l
prevail again, but there Is IN Congress tsaST
concern about economy and an alarm
about waste tsat has not sxtsird Snee ls&S,
when the Treasury nooagAtes we're saas
open and q large pAgT OF the papglAl4aa
ran IN TO set theirs
In leSs than q month the nscAi yea ef
is&s ~ii close and naeAl 1880 eesn There
Ii reason 10 believe that the nsufsa then
made public viii shock all save the most
day optimists and eallcua polItielans
Las, January MIR. Truman presented q
voiuminou but uninlell,sihle budget IN
which he forecast for fiscal 1880 . denelt
OF $500 900 600 The Joint Congressional
Committee on Internal Revenue TaSAtiea
points out that accepting the Presidents
estimate OF ssl POO 600 600 tot expenditures
he has underestimate the deficit by ta.loe.-
900 900, which means a deacst at 81 COO
900 600
But Senator Byrd and others mast Tire
Presidents spending estimate for 1850 -
far too iow They sAy appropriations al
ready authorized Justify putting the nsms
at s4S 800 900 600 In other words. The
1880 deficit cannot be less than ae.Soo.-
900 ooo-and easily may run 10 o. 900 .ooea-
days ago estimated It at ell 900. 900 900,
The facts seem 10 bear the Byrd nEHFs
out II and when they are snhstAntiated.
the crisis eonfronting the country wili he
one no citizen can afford 20 blink, Clearly.
something then viii have 10 be done or
down the drain we so. We viii have ar
rived at that inevitable end OF the road 20
Ions and futilely talked about.
Obviously there are only three possible
- awsi imMS tai
vastly more, or take the foot OF the brakes.
Despite passage by the House Of q new
veterans pension bill sentiment for economy
appears rapidly growins Recent nsws-
paper polls In various States are highly
significant. There Is q real prospect that
the Ave per cent cut ell down the line wiii
be made. But that would total anls "a
billion. which Is n Ions way from enough.
The Hoover Commission has shown how
billion can be annually saved but the
power of the Federal Iohholder Ia such
that few believe Congress haa the guia 10
so full distance on that.
Clearly. you can't raise ss 900 900 900 more
In taxes without further depresasns business
and drying I'D revenue. Economy Ia the only
answer Paced with the stark prospect OF
q bankrupt Nation. the only possible way TO
avert disaster Ia TO push Rside oil new expen-
sive experimcnis. completely cut out waste
and recover our financial eauilihriuts Upon
that hinges not only our own salvation bus
the civilizations abroad which we ere 70
desperately trying 10 prop
It is interesting 10 note thai while Mr..
Truman Ia alarmed over the prospect Of .
big deficit and atiIi-pubiiciy anyhow
favors raising four billions IN new taxes, him
zeal for economy In not great 90 far he
has opposed every cutting proposal Nor
has he really put his weight behind the
Hoover proposals.
II Ia even more interesting 20 note the
attitude Of the Americans for Democrats
Action and their allied labor bosses. Tbsss
denounce the Presidents partial retreat from
the more fantasticaily expensive part Of hls
program a. betrayal OF the people. Bas
they do more than that. Recently Hsf-
ward economist. representing ths ADA,
appeared before . Senate committee usgins
the administrat!on's extremely costly con.
pulsory health insurance bill. he rather
stunned some Senators by declaring that
governments cannot afford 10 economlss.
and family heads who saYs instead Of spend.
ing are "anti-sociai"
There Ia no available information a 10
how he behaves With hia own money. but
certainly senator Hubert Humphrey. who
Ia head Of the ADA. does not intend u he
can hsip u that uneis Sam shall so ANTE
social" in this way In Eve months he has
personally sponsored hilis totalins mort than
- billions OF dollars Of taxpayers fnnnsy.
He Ia probably pretty proud Of himself.
Anyhow. its y great thought thai tne more
we spend and tAs more we ows and that
the deeper the dsfscii and the higher the
debt the better OF everybody IT, These who
believe that-and there are stiil an sstnniMh.
ing number--may have o lot Of fsr~-ssnta
the dam bursts.
exceedinwiy friendly. but nothing more than
expected from my knowiedEe u the Amsrt.
can people. Only the utmost eoF6aaissy
and courtesy have been shcwn rne, and