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Our age is one of rapid and radical changes in technology, urban growth, and race relations. Vast social needs have been accumulating. Public apathy has kept down the government expansion and increased appropriations re quired to meet these needs. No quick and easy solutions are available to cope with our national needs. Social investments are needed in a wide range of activities, such as education, pub lic facilities and low-rent housing for the poor, which cannot bring in businesslike profits. The key to the national complex of social and economic problems is federal government policy. The government must be the employer of the last resort for the unemployed and underemployed in providing needed public services. The government must also be the landlord of last resort—to build and rehabilitate housing that poor families can afford. To meet the national social and economic chal lenge confronting us, increased funds, primarily from taxes, must be found. To avoid unnecessary taxes, continuing ef forts should be made to eliminate the types of wasteful ex penditures that develop in all large enterprises, both private and government. But essential domestic programs must be maintained and expanded. As our economy grows, tax reve nues will increase. Much of the increased revenue should go for social investment purposes. Public support is required for necessary appropriations. Such support, in turn, hinges on the development of a fair and adequate tax system. More emphasis should be placed upon the ability to pay taxes.

Our age is one of rapid & radical changes in technology, Ur growth, & race relations. Vast soc needs have been accumulating. Public apathy has kept down gov expansion & increased appropriations required to meet these needs. No quick & easy solutions are available to cope with our nat'l needs. Soc investments are needed in a wide range of activities, such as educ, public facilities & low-rent housing for the poor, which cannot bring in businesslike profits. The key to the nat'l complex of soc & econ problems is federal gov policy. The gov must be the employer of the last resort for the unemployed & underemployed in providing needed public services. The gov must also be the landlord of last resort-to build & rehabilitate housing that poor fam's can afford. To meet the nat'l soc & econ challenge confronting us, increased funds, primarily from taxes, must be found. To avoid unnecessary taxes, continuing efforts should be made to eliminate the types of wasteful expenditures that develop in all large enterprises, both private & gov. But essential domestic programs must be maintained & expanded. As our economy grows, tax revenues will increase. Much of the increased revenue should go for soc investment purposes. Public support is required for necessary appropriations. Such support, in turn, hinges on the development of a fair & adequate tax system. More emphasis should be placed upon the ability to pay taxes. HA.

The major needs of our time are adequate na tional defense, public services for a growing population, com prehensive economic and technical aid for the uncommitted peoples of less-developed areas of the world who are emerging from colonial domination and social and economic adjustments to rapid technological change. These needs must be met for national survival and the continued progress of our free society. They can and should be met by economic expansion of at least 5 per cent a year. Restrictive economic policies that curtail economic progress and growth must be abandoned. The "tight money" policy should be halted if growth is to be stimulated. Continuing wage and salary increases should be encouraged if growing consumer markets are to be attained. The govern ment's budget policy should aim at balancing the budget in times of full employment from an expanding economy rather than restricting government expenditures and retarding eco nomic growth. Full employment and economic growth of 5 per cent a year should be established as basic national objec tives, to be implemented by government policies. To achieve these major requirements, there should be an end to the inces sant propaganda campaign about runaway inflationary pres sures that have not existed in the past eight years. Solutions for the type of price changes of recent years have to be devel oped on the basis of the facts in each separate part of the economy. The main task of the day is more rapid economic expansion to sustain full employment and meet the nation's needs. This will do more than anything to stabilize the price situation.