Over-Burdened U.S. Taxpayers Keep
Sending Big Spenders To Public Jobs
MDFORD MAIL TKlftUNKi MEDFORD, OREGON
United Press International
The U.S. taxpayer is a mealy
type who permits his elected
servants in state and federal of
fice to spend him toward bank
ruptcy at worst and short ra
tions at best.
Big spenders in federal and
state office seems to be miracu
lously protected from the pun
ishment outraged taxpayers
would visit upon them if the
taxpayers had the wit to be out
raged. The taxpayers are vot
ers. 11 is their habit to return
to office public servants whose
most notable achievements are
in the area of spending the tax
payers' dollars.
Tax Foundation, Inc., 50
Rockefeller Plaza, New York
20, is in with some figures sug
gesting what the big spending
public officials have been doing
to the citizens who vote them
into office and keep them there.
For example:
Inflation Lowers Income
Taxes and the rotting of the
U.S. dollar's purchasing power
by currency inflation have com
bined to give the average fam
ily man a hard time. Consider
your friend, Joe, who was your
next door neighbor in 1940, 23
years ago. Joe was a family
man. Two kids, a jalopy, a
mortgage and a job. His income
was $5,000 a year in 1940.
Tax Foundation, Inc., calcu-
Reynolds Firm
Wins Injunction
PORTLAND (UPI) - The
Reynolds Metals Co. Friday won
the latest round in a 17-year
battle with Troutdale rancher
Paul Martin.
Federal Judge William G.
East issued an opinion granting
the company an injunction to
force Martin and his wife Ver
la, to take down a sign defam
ing the firm.
The battle is ovW fluoride
waste deposits which allegedly
have found their way from Rey
nolds' aluminum plant at Trout
dale to Martin's nearby ranch.
The rancher has won several
sizeable damage claims and one
is still pending.
Martin erected a large bill
board along the Columbia Riv
er Highway which proclaims his
ranch to be contaminated by
fluoride poisoning. It is Il
lustrated with pictures of dead
and dying cattle.
East said the sign was de
signed to call public attention to
a personal controversy, not to a
dangerous situation.
Ambassador Called
Back to Washington
WASHINGTON (UPI) - U.S.
Ambassador to Cambodia Phil
ip D. Sprouse is being called
back to Washington "for consul
tations." The action was in apparent
retaliation for Cambodia's re
call of its envoy here, Nong
Kimny, who informed the State
Department Friday he had been
ordered home and "will be
leaving Washington in the near
future."
State Department Press Offi
cer Richard I. Phillips, who
made the announcement Fri
day, said the U.S. action did
not constitute a break in rela
tions. Other American officials
will remain in the embassy in
Cambodia.
Nong was recalled, according
to reports from Phnom Penh,
because of Prince Norodom Si
hanouk's displeasure over an
American demand for "clarifi
cation" of a Cambodian radio
broadcast which allegedly was
derogatory of the late President
Kennedy.
BIG SPENDER ARRESTED
TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) - Ovid
Ira Wickham, a big spender who
carried his bankroll in his fancy
cowboy boots, has been arrest
ed for stealing $52,000 from an
flderlv California woman, the
FBI said Saturday.
lates that Joe's take-home pay
after taxes and currency infla
tion have had their bite would
have to be $12,832 a year today
to keep Joe and his family even
with their 1940 standard of liv
ing. That would be a hike of
157 per cent in Joe's annual
earnings.
The man who earned $3,000
in 1940 would need to earn
$7,451 to break even today, 148
per cent up. The $7,500 man
would need nearly $20,000 today
and the $10,000-a-year man of
1940 would reuiqre $26,888, an
up of 169 per cent.
These figures are in terms of
the dollar's purchasing power.
That is, $7451 would buy today
no more than $3000 would buy
in 1940. This is a measure of
the dollar rotting process under
way in the United States. Cur
rency inflation is much more
responsible for this shrinking
purchasing power than are
taxes. It is a fact that the big
spending public servants handle
the taxpayers' money as though
dollars were going out of style.
But these big spenders seem to
have little stomach for propos
ing increases to pay the bills.
On the contrary, it is proposed
now that spending be increased
and that taxes be reduced.
Dollar's Value Decreases
The U.S. Bureau of Labor sta
tistics regularly computes the
purchasing power of the dollar
as of now compared with previ
ous periods. Assuming that the
dollar would buy 100 cents
worth of groceries, rent and
services in 1957-59, we aouar
would buy only 93.4 cents worth
of groceries in September of
this year. Against a 100 cent
dollar on the basis of 1947-49 1
purchasing power, the Septem
ber 1963 dollar would purchase
only 76.1 cents worth of goods.
Using 1939 as the loo cents
base period, the September 1963
dollar was worth only 45.2 cents
in purchasing power, me U.&.
Subsidies Urged For
Goldmining Industry
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Senate Interior Committee has
called for subsidies to help the
dying domestic goldmining in
dustry despite Treasury Depart
ment protests tnat it migm
shake faith in the dollar.
The committee, dominated by
Western senators, voted unani
mously Friday to approve a bill
by Sen. Ernest Gruening, D-
Alaska, to provide subsidies to
compensate for increased costs.
The goldmining industry has
complained for years that its
costs have gone up while the
treasury-set price for gold has
remained at $35 an ounce since
1934.
Treasury officials repeatedly
have rejected proposals to sub
sidize gold mining on grounds
that subsidies might be vicwod
abroad as foreshadowing deval
uation of the dollar.
dollar has been on the skids.
That is obvious. This skid in
purchasing power has been ac
companied over the years by a
drunken - sailor - on - Saturday
night tendency of the U.S. gov
ernment to. live beyond its
means.
This spending binge has been
going on almost without pause
for 30 years, gradually squeez
ing the dollar's purchasing
power toward zero. Two-big dol
lar, here we come!!!!!
Brucellosis Shot
Payments To End
SALEM (UPI) -Federal-state
payments for brucellosis calfj
vaccinations will end in Oregon
Dec. 31, the State Agriculture
Department said Friday.
After that date cattle owners
will have to pay for the vacci-j
nations. The announcement re
versed word released by the de
partment earlier this week that ;
the program would be con- i
tinued.
Federal funds totaling $30,000
for the vaccinations have been ;
dropped, the department said.
The state's share of the pro
gram was cancelled after the
Oct. 15 tax referendum. . j
TURKEY POLITICS
ANKARA. Turkey (UPI) -President
Cemal Gurscl Satur
day asked Caretaker Premier
Ismet lnonu, who resigned Dec.
2, to try to form a new coali
tion government after attempts
by the opposition Justice Party
field.
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