The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-17

l955-56 federal budget, several
items of whish deserve some de-
tailed comment.
Item /. The Individual Income
Tax collections anticipated for
1856 are S32.500 million, which
is such a vast amount that it has
very little meaning to most of US.
It IS worth noting, however, that
this is 81 billion, or 6 percent,
above the collections during the
current year, making it the big
gest bite out of YOUR income
even planned.
Item 2. Under the heading Of
Employment Taxes, in reality a
part of the regular withholding
piracy, another ST billion will be
taken from the producers with
out their consent This is nearly
20 percent more than this year,
taken under the pretense of
protecting" us.
Item 3. Under the caption of
Deductions from the budget re
ceipts" is a strange item listed as
Transfer to Federal Old Age
and Survivors Trust Fund" 1t
amounted to more than So bill
lion an increase of 20 percent in
a single year. 1t would seem that
this is a direct gift from the gov
ernment money tree to the
fund" Such is NOT the case
because the government gives
nothing 1t is the taxpayers that
provide everything.
An interesting sidelight on this
item is the fact that the socalled
fund" contains not one cent in
valid assets. Bureaucrats take the
money out as fast as taxpayers
put it in. They replace the money
with government debt--a nation
al liability-Which the taxpayers
must pay all over again.
Item 4. Leading the list of
Budget Expenditures is an item
called Major National Security"
which, it is said, requires over
$40 billion. Evidence cleaned
from congressional hearings and
the statements Of qualified mill
tary authorities indicate that
considerably less than half this
sum will be used to enlist, train
and equip our armed forces. The
balance will be spent in direct
attacks upon the properties and
enterprises of the American
people to build a bureaucratic
empire owned and operated for
and by the Pentagon
Item 5. Strange as it may seem
Agriculture and Agricultural Re
sources are no longer national
assets, but are, according to the
budget, liabilities requiring near
ly 8 billion tax dollars in a single
year.
Item 6. 1t will come as a shock
to many Americans to learn that
Commerce and ManpOwer is also
a national liability, requiring the
expenditure of nearly 7 billion
tax dollars during the 1886 fis-
cal year.
Item z. General Government,
which includes nearly all the
properly authorized constitution
al functions Of government, has
become the smallest item in the
budget In spite Of a 20 percent
increase, only two and a half per
cent Of the budget goes to Gen
eral Government
Item 8. Perhaps the most amaz-
ing clement in the budget is a
deduction from the list of "ex-
penditmes." Titled Deduct APP
plicabie Receipts, it is explained
that receipts Of certain govern
ment corporations, the Postal
Service and other revolving
funds the receipts of which come
primarily from outside the gov
eminent reduces the budget by
nearly $l1 billion.
The more one studies the fed
eral budget and the fantastic
| grabs for power being pressured
through Congress, the more one
realizes the need for outlawing
these SOCialiStic and cOmmuniStic
| practices by providing private
property and private enterprise
with constitutional protection.
Once we realize the dimension
Of the communal attacks upon
our private enterprise system we
will comprehend the urgency for
action on the Proposed 23rd
Amendment which is designed tc
outlaw these practices. Already
approved by Illinois and now
pending in Congress as H, j. Res
1913, it provides that;
THE government of the United
States shall not engage i'm any
business, professional, CONNER
cial, financial, or industrial en-
terprise except as specified il
the Constitution. Willis Stone
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