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General Douglas Macarthur — Part 4
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{ which ‘pbecause z ingenuity. of bearing the -in-: pinch most -of the people. It
wot its limited come- tax ~returns, Whereas “used to be that the high cost.
‘purpose and businessmen ‘can find. tax of living stirred anger,. but
t “Iocale passed _ sanctuaries abroad, the ordi- ‘enough of -our citizens are
puanoticed. nary citizen can only hope -narcotized by subsidies and’
‘Mae Arthur's that his deductions will kelp .escalator “clauses to satisfy
© address was him over a bad year and that them for the ‘moment. In-
. more like.that he. will not run up against a creasing Government sub-
ofaBritish “field man” “who .enjoys .sidies for all organized pres-'
* board chair- making miserable anyone who Sure groups will not help those
[whan who ‘earns more than he does. One who receive fixed ‘salaries,
2 often uses once .fold me, when:I com-- such as school teachers,
* such an -ocea- - Sokolsky plained of his general atti-, policemen ‘and ‘firemen. In
“‘sion’ to speak '_tude, ‘that I ought to follow] such an inflation as we have’
-on subjects which interest ‘him “his: example: ‘eata little andj now, the white collar class’
$-and which-may be of public -have no problems. . ~ suffers most and‘ those who,
“moment. On this “occasion,.- Not only is the tax punitive] have the means and know ho’
‘Gen, _MacArthur commented but in recent years it is ‘to speculate benefit most. °
| : ;7on taxes and what: he said being collected punitively, the’ is not-a.sound situation. ~
' seems TS be of value in the object, of course, being to“: wiaties PORE a a
recor rd: - | operate a Government agency | <2) -S 20) a anne eee
2 wae In the lexicon ofgov- efficiently. even if At drives
* ernment there is no more grim ' the Nation to Poujadism. in the
[ “.and pertinent aphorism. than United States. It is significant
“Chief Justice John Marshall’s that the man who is most
aarning. as early as 1819 that ardently and diligently attack-
“the power to. tax includes the ing the income tax system is ~ /
power to destroy, Indeed, this T. Coleman Andrews who was: ) I ’
i: 4s the wéapon that Karl Marx the collector of the tax during : whee sort
¥ declared was the vital one to. most of the. Eisenhower Ad-' . }- . ne |
“displace the system of free en- ministration and who resigned: 19: SEP % 56
". terprise—the system on which after he became convinced +
*.our Nation was founded—the that his was a foul institution,
: system which has made us the a weapon for the destruction
= most prosperous People of all of American traditional life, ——
{histo ory. “use, ° ‘MacArthur says of it:: a -
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pountry over fundamentals, Tea Party is. still ‘symbolic. ribune
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