The Republican., 1963-12-19

Public Is Worried About Big
Governmental recent Senate
Cloakroom" item relating to the
bisncss of the Federal government
has been quoted far and wide. We
referred to the 10000 businesses
which the Government Is operating
in competition with private indus
try Newspapers as far away as
Florida, Texas and California car
ricd editorials about the Cloak
room article. and several maya
zines have asked permission to re-
print it in full. This. we believe. is
an indication of the growing con-
Germ about big government. The
Federal government is growing to
monstrous proportions The Fed
cral government is the largest en-
ploycr in the nation. 1t is the larg-
est land owner Its present holdings
come to some 788,00O003 acres of
land, about onc-fifth of the land
surface of the United States. Even
with all the privately owned stor-
ace facilities. the Federal govern
mCnt is the largest Warehouser in
the business. The Federal govern
ment is the largest electric power
produced in the country, the larg-
est insurer. the largest lender and
the largest borrower. the largest
landlord, the largest shipowner.
and the largest truck fleet operator
With such record and with the
list growing so fast. how much
longer can we hold onto the claim
Of being the citadel of private en-
tcrprise and individual initiative.
qualities which made this nation
strong? Are we to continue to be
the land Of the free and home of
the brave? Paraphrasing Woodrow
Wilson the history Of human lib
crty is the history Of the limitations
placed on government
Tax Cut. and Cut In Federal
Spending-You will recall that we
have insisted that any cut in taxes
should be accompanied by a cut
in Government spending There is
le sound reason for deliberately
defi. --fng fhe deficit nv reducing
taxes ~k4sNcut reducing expendi-
lures. Taxes are too high, of course,
but what GOOD would it Go the in
dividual to have a few dollars
through a tax reduction only to have
the value Of all his dollars re
duced through a new initiation which
surely would result unless Gov
ernment spending were reduced.
The people OF the Nation under
stand this As a matter OF fact,
resistance to tax cuts from the
masses of people who could not
understand how taxes could be
lowered When Government spending
was rising People became very
much concerned as TO how their
tax money was being spent They
kne" that some Of it was being
spent for all manner of things they
would never see or use-from the
Foreign Aid money spent to buy
extra wives for government Of
ficials in Kenya to the millions
spent % develop an Oklahoma lake
as a tourist attraction The Ameri-
can paoplc knew that their money
was being wasted. and they de-
manded that this waste be elimi-
mated before any thought was given
to a tax cut.
One of the first things President
johnson did after he came into Of
flee was to direct the Depar ,ment
and bureau heads TO reduce spend
ing He told the Chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee, Sena-
wi la ~ / u u vi SliAd, llidt
cuts in the budget would be made
before the committee would be eX-
pected to pass on any tax cut. If
substantial reductions are made in
Fedora, spending, then tax cut
would be in order, for taxes both
on individuals and on businesses
are entirely too high. Federal spend
ing could be cut to the point
where we could start paying off the
national debt and still reduce taxes.
Moon Project: Progress or Waste?
Numerous eminent scientists and
expressed criticism of the Space
Administration plans for landing
a man on the moon They have
grave doubts that the lunar pro-
gram can be reconciled with the
vacuum of knowledge about the
moons surface. They feel that at
least a number Of unnamed probes
should first provide lunar data
One of my colleagues, Chairman