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General Douglas Macarthur — Part 4
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=. Not only is tax punitive but in recent years 3 js '
being collected punitively, the object, of course, being .
to operate'a. government agency efficiently even if it:
drives the nation to Poujadism in the United Btates, |
Jt is significant that the man who is most ardently .
“and diligently attacking. the income tax: system is
‘T. Coleman Andrews who was the collectot of the tex -
‘during most of the Eisenhower Administration and —
‘who resigned ‘after he ‘became convinced that his was
& foul institution, ‘a ‘weapon for. the .destructior. of
‘American traditional life. MacArthur Says of its. v2
. wor ee er ery 27
. . yo rset,
Symbol of Revolts naa
, “It has been the cause of more bloody revolutiofis :
in the history of government than anyother ‘one |
provocation. It precipitated our own Revolution which :
‘resulted in the founding of the United States ef Amete }
ica. The Boston Tea Party is still symbolic, The Bjblis ;
cal.story of Christ’s repudiation and expulsion of -the |
tax tyrants from the temple is still a warning...” j
; __ 36 4s possible that some day Americans will have '
‘ another Boston Tea Party, but that can only happen i
: when the dollar has sunk so low in purchasing power
- aS really to pinch Most of the people. It used to be-
that the High Cost of Living stirred anger, bug enough
‘ of our citizens are narcotized by subsidies and escalator
' Clauses-to satisfy them for the moment. . Increasing |
“government subsidies for all organized pressure
: groups will not help those who ‘Teceive fix
salaries, suth as school teachers, policemen and fire.
men. In such an inflation ‘as we have now, the white
_collar class suffers most and those who have the means
‘and know how to speculate benefit most. It-is not a
sound situation, - Te BBR
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