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Get Your Freedom Back
Ft on the Evils of the Personal
Income Tax.
From Federal competition with
private business
There are just two simple steps:
Repeal of the 16th Amendment
—that is. income, gift, and inheri
tance taxes
The second is to get the Govern
ment out of private business
HOW DOES THIS WORK?
It wiU eliminate over 700 waste
ful corporate activities: release one
million government employees:
give you more of your own money
to spend: abolish triple taxing on.
goods and services, and keep a
tight rein on a spendthrift govern
ment
The public debt und interest on
it) will fall Financial confidence
will rise The people will spend
more, and income from legitimate
taxes will rise.
Many businessmen, lawyers and
responsible public servants are
joining in the move to repeal the
16th Amendment. They feel our
very liberty is at state. Gen Doug
las Mac Arthur- sums it up very well
in the following words:
The fundamental and ultimate
issue at stake ns net merely our
money—it k liberty itself, the ex
cessive taxation of an overgrown
government versus personal free
dom Our swollen budgets cons
tantly have been misrepresented to
the public. Our government has
kept us in a perpetual state of fear
. . . with the cry of grave national
emergency
The Administration must cut
spending, not only to reduce the
burden of the people, but to elim
inate “Arming the magistrate with
a patronage of money which might
be used to corrupt the principle of
government.”
The greatest danger to a high
level of employment is not eutoma
tion. but heavy taxation, which re
moves from industry the funds
with which to expand and create
new jobs for the increasing popu
lation Excessive taxation produce
results somewhat resembling the
evils of slavery.
One wag claims that the
greatest hidden force behind
government today is the or
ganized horse farmers His
contention is they are striving
to eliminate the automobile to
bring bach the horse and buggy.
* • *
Many politicians and bureau
orate nave
yet to under
stand that for
millions of
people, and
bnsines* en
terprises the
moto?- vehicle
sary as a
hammer is
far a carpen- C. W. Harder
ter. These characters still look
upon the automobile as a luxury.
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In fact, there have been
times when some of the nation’s
bureaucrats have publicly been
quite apologetic over fact there
are many automobiles in U. E.
while the poor people of lower
Slobbovia have so few.
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Of course, they either Ignore,
or are ignorant, of the fact
that the automobile is a prime
supplier of jobs and that many
independent businesses are en
gaged in the selling or servic
ing of motor vehicles
a a a
As any drive through the
M a in Streets of America will
readily show, a major back
bone otf the community’s busi
ness life are the independent
car dealers wrhc are also in
many cases community leaders
for civic betterment.
Congressman Stan Tupper
come out opposed to any con
tax an gasoline put through to
finance the so-called super higfe
v. - program.
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noints out the fallacy of
“temporary” taxes. The first
one cent tax per gallon was a
temporary tax in 1932 to fight
the depression. It became per
manent in 1941 In 1951 to help
finance Korean War the tax be
came a temporary 2 cent one,
and in 1956 another temporary
one cent was added and in 1959
another temporary one cent.
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Congressman Cheater Mer
row has also takes a public
stand against the temporary
one cent additional gas tax be
ing can tinned. He points oat
that SI.7 billion of taxes paid
to the federal government in
highway user taxes, largely all
irom “temporary” taxes, are
diverted to other uses.
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Congressman John Ashbrook
also takes quite a public stand
against the continuation of
“temporary” taxes He points
out that during the Korean War
; a 10% “temporary” excise tax
was placed on automobiles.
Ibis tax. which adds about $200
to the price at a car and brings
in over $1^4 billion yearly, has
never been repealed, either.
• * *
It is a curious commentary
on bureaucratic thinking. If Hie
mental processes they engage
In can he dignified as thinking.
• * *
Here is a nation whose steel
industry practically depends on
the auto business In addition,
many other business and jobs
depend an it. Borne economists
say collapse of American auto
industry would bring about the
complete collapse at entire
U. S. economy.
Timothy Metrokin
Aboard Midway
Serving aboard the attack air
craft carrier USS Midway operat
ing with the powerful Seventh
Fleet in the Western Pacific is
Timothy C. Metrokin. radarman
third class. U5N, son of Mr and
Mrs Walter Metrokin of Kodiak
The Midway, with her crew of
3.700, serves as flagship for Com
mander Carrier Division Three
Aircraft aboard the large vessel in
eludes the Skyhawk jet, the Demon
all-weather jet fighter the Sky
warrior jet bomber and the super
sonic Crusader fighter.
The earner left Alemeda. Calif
in February and since has visited
Hawaii. Guam, Hong Kong, the
Philippines. Okinawa and Japan.
She is scheduled to return to the
U. S in the fall
RADIO FIELD STATIONS
INSTALLED ON KODIAK JS. .
Ten radio field stations for the
Alaska Department: of Fish and
Game have been installed in the
past 10 days by the Alaska Divis
ion of Communications.
Charles L. <Chuck' Buck. Com
munications director, said that the
installations are the first of a ser
ies now being installed for Fish
and Game by the electronics tech
nicians of his division
Now in operation, the new field
stations include one at Mosquito
Point on Bristol Bay, three in the
Kodiak area at Red River, Upper
Station and Frazier River; four in
the Cook Inlet-Kenai Peninsula
area at English Bay, McNeil River,
Kalgin Island and Deshka River
and two in the Prince Williams
Sound area at Coghill and Eshamv.
NOTICE
Unger, Wittich and “Splatter
Ball’' White won the match with
3.173 pins against 2,922 pins for
Ballard, Lester and “Shackle Ball’’
Kraft. ffl-ly
Reflections
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these good fishing spots had better
hurry before they become fished
out
Speaking of fishing, we had our
first taste of some nice rainbows
which had been stocked in a near
by lake—Sunday was one of the
finest days we’ve had m many a
long time—good fishing, grand
weather, most excellent company,
and a fine fish feed afterwards
What more could one ask"
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An interesting point was brought
out by Sen Gruemng in his testi
mony supporting his own bill S.
1230, for allocating funds under the
Saltonstali-Kennedy act to the
states having fisheries problems*
rather than as now to the I>epari
ment of the Interior. Sen, Gruemng
declared the federal government
has a duty to act in this field with
respect to Alaska, inasmuch the
fisheries declined rapidly under
federal control.
In the past six years, the Senator
said, the federal government has
given vicious foreign countries
SIS,990.064 for improvement of
their fishing industries and re
sources. including the Republic of
China, Indonesia. Korea. Laos,
Thailand, Vietnam, India. Pakistan.
Turkey, Ethiopia, Liberia. British
Guiana, Spain, Yugoslavia El Sal
vador, Peru. Tunisia, Somaliland,
Cambodia, the South China area
and Iceland.”
* • *
A bill to increase the disability
compensation rates for the service
disabled has been approved by the
House of Representatives and is
being considered in the Finance
Committee of the Senate The av
erage over-all increase wliieb
would be provided by this legisla
tion, H. B. 878, is approximately
9.2 per cent.
* • •
Trucking of mail to Alaska is
still a hot subject, with the final
decision not yet made Assurances
have been given by the U S. Post
Office Department that there wji.
be no change in the present system
of mail delivery in southeastern
Alaska Nothing has been said
about Kodiak, but we assume no
change is contemplated for here
either
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