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...domestic policy of the Government is equally idealistic: reduction of expenses and taxes, wide social reforms, balancing of the budget...
...budget showing a deficit of $12,400 billion marks was adopted by the Reichstag. This is terrible on the face of it, but in real money it is only about 12 million dollars...
Germany wants more money. She has a horrid gap in the budget. What can she do? Possibly nine-tenths of the population of the world are millionaires in German eyes. Then they must be taxed. This cannot be done, but a brilliant Hun thought put a wonderful scheme of taxing foreign words. Thus if anybody prefers "hotel" for " gasthof," "coiffeur" for " haarkünstler," " restaurant " for " wirtschaft," he must pay for offending the populace with these horrid, florid words...
There are two items of expense in the business of running a community by law. One is the cost of making laws. The other is the cost of enforcing them. Tine Budget, a paper published by the National Budget Committee (which advocates increased economy in public business), published statistics to show that the average cost of passing laws in state legislatures is between $717 and $890 per statute. On top of this is the cost of enforcing laws once they are made...
...argument of the Budget Committee has been criticized editorially because the " overhead " of running a legislature is more or less fixed. If we have " too much government" it does not increase the cost of legislation, because the expenses of a legislature would be approximately the same whether it passed at a session 100 laws...