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...running out while the United States' need for steel climbs, the Labrador deposits are becoming more important. The railroad and port lobbies, of course, believe that steel producers--if they need Labrador ore--shall pay for shipping it, rather than charge this cost up to the American tax-payer...
...rugged face looked out, seeming to endorse the ten aphorisms printed alongside his picture. Look thought "it's about time for the country to remember" such Lincolnian sayings as "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift," "You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer," and "You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred...
...time when even those of us who don't know much about what goes on in the outside world have some inkling that affairs are not at their normal smoothness, and education in particular is not rolling in gold. We are warned by college presidents that if the tax payer doesn't help, private educational institutions will go down. We receive heart-rending pleas for money from conscientious people who want to help war-torn people and home-less children whose homes we have helped to destroy, and in the same mail requests for gifts to the Harvard Fund...
...Finally," Joad concludes, "such a course has been known to give men a serenity of outlook. It may not in our present age be the best dividend-payer from the purely utilitarian standpoint, but this at least may be said of it, that it sometimes enables men to despise the wealth that it prevents them from acquiring...
...shifts the financial burden from the consumer to the Treasury, the immediate effect of the plan would be a large drain on the public funds. But any subsidy plan essentially involves a redistribution of income, and this becomes a question of how much income will shift from the tax-payer to the farmer...