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...Government. Speaker Garner stood sponsor for legislation which would authorize the new President not only to abolish and consolidate all executive departments but also to control the public purse by reducing or suspending appropriations fixed by law and by cutting Federal salaries at will-all to help balance the Budget. Declared the Speaker: "I'm ready to go the limit and the limit is the Constitution...
...went 250 invitations to 250 Great Names throughout the land to journey to Washington and tell the Senate Finance Committee what was wrong with the U. S. First Great Name to open last week's hearing was Bernard Mannes Baruch. His advice: "Balance the Budget. Tax everybody for everything. Take hungry men off the world's pavements." He proposed the following farm relief plan: Let the Government allot production quotas on corn, cotton, wheat and tobacco and then lease the farm land thus left idle at an average of $3 per acre per year, thereby compensating the producer...
...march and fight And threaten us with dynamite. Those stalwart ones may have the onus Of laying hands upon the bonus. The currency-to them we hand it, To shrink, contract it, or expand it. We'll let them exercise their talents On making that thar' budget balance. And, pointing out, with no delaying, A tax the public won't mind paying. To make this simple as can be, We leave to them technocracy. To them we're leaving the analysis Of beer producing no paralysis. To them we leave, with stifled sobs, All persons...
...Budget Juggle. First job of the new Cabinet, as of its two predecessors, is to balance the French budget which should have been balanced by Jan. 1. Since the Socialists wrecked the last Cabinet rather than vote enough new taxes and economies to restore fiscal equilibrium, the only course open last week seemed to be to juggle figures so that the French deficit could be called smaller than it actually is: 10½ billion francs...
...Finances of France; Letters to a Bourgeois of 1914. Last week M. Bonnet proposed to juggle some four billion francs out of the deficit by suspending during the crisis amortization of the national sinking fund and by transferring the deficits of the French State Railways from the budget to a special account which he hopes to cover by upping taxes on gasoline and motor vehicles-Socialists having no sympathy for motorists...