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1959 Tax Foundation's Taxpayer News: News of the Organized Taxpayer Movement 1 (1959)

handle is hein.tera/tfouayern0003 and id is 1 raw text is: JANUARY 1959 TAX FOUNDATION'S POUND NEWS OF THE ORGANIZED TAXPAYER MOVEMENT Tax Boost Threats Stir Local Groups Threats of increased state-local taxes this year are stirring aggressive interest in local taxpayer groups from coast-to-coast. Recent reports from five state as- sociations show local groups are getting together to present a united front against spending increases. In California where state officials foresee a $300 million state deficit, (Continued on page 2) Pickup Appointed Michigan Executive Robert E. Pick- 7 -' up, Central Divi- sion director of the Pennsylvania Economy League, has been named di- rector of the Citi- zens Research Council of Michi- gan, a position a vacant since the Robert Pickup death of Loren B. Miller last May. A nationally recognized research authority, particularly in the field of administrative organization, Bob re- cently has acted as consultant on studies of fire department organiza- tion in such cities as Philadelphia, Kansas City and Providence. He has been with PEL since 1948, first as Northeast Division director and since 1954 as head of the Central Division. From 1943 to 1948 he was executive director of the Providence (Continued on page 2) Balanced Budget Draws Support As First Step Toward Spending Control; NTC Meeting Set To Meet March 16-18 This year's annual meeting of the National Taxpayers Conference will bring executives from most of the 37 member states to Washington, D. C. at the peak of the Federal budget battle. They will meet March 16-18 at the Sheraton-Park Hotel. Fresh from a number of state legis- lative battles, taxpayer leaders also will have a chance to attend Tax Foundation's National Tax Confer- ence, which in the past has attracted several hundred TF members and other business leaders. The TF conference will be held on the second day of the NTC meet- ing and will provide up-to-the-minute background on the nation's fiscal policies. Sen. Harry Byrd and Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson will be among the speakers along with other prominent Congressional and Ad- ministration fiscal spokesmen. They will discuss both taxes and expendi- tures. State and local finances, in terms of the 45 state legislatures in session this year, will be an important part of the NTC agenda on both the Mon- day preceding the tax conference and on the following Wednesday. Other state and local matters, the NTC's Federal campaign and various ad- ministrative and other problems of the taxpayer organizations fill the schedule. Backs Spending Cuts The balanced $77 billion Federal budget proposed for fiscal 1960 is an important first step toward getting control of Federal spending and con- serving our tax dollar, according to Steve Stahl, National Taxpayers Con- ference chairman. Nevertheless, the goal of the or- ganized taxpayer movement is a budget considerably lower than the President proposed, said Stahl. Last Fall, the NTC sought a budget for fiscal 1960 reduced to at least the level originally proposed for fiscal 1959-$74 billion. We have fooled too long with wild-eyed Federal spending that re- sults in nothing but higher taxes and more inflation, said the NTC chair- man in a statement timed to coincide with the release of the President's proposed budget on January 19. In supporting the drive to reduce spending, Stahl noted that it's the duty and right of every citizen who wants lower taxes and less inflation to write to the President and Congress in support of this assault on waste- ful, less essential Federal spending. If this same fiscal wisdom is fol- lowed in the states, he said, we won't need many of the new and in- creased taxes being discussed in every one of the 42 state legislatures now at work. In cooperation with the NTC pol- icy committee, Stahl was planning a (Continued on page 4) 1 NEWS OF THE k

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