Spending Seven Billion Costs And Taxes Rise
Wright A Patterson examines how long it would take to spend seven billion dollars with U S production, noting six month totals of war aid, farm and factory outputs, and rising taxes from 1913 to 1941. It warns Americans will bear direct and indirect costs through various new levies and higher prices. The piece lauds newspapers as vital community institutions and cites Collier's poll favoring a national sales tax.
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