Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Before the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Associations at Boston, Massachusetts
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OCR Page 1 of 12ADDRESS BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
OF MISSOURI, TO BE DELIVERED AT 12:00 NOON
DECEMBER 12, 1942, BEFORE THE MASSACHUSETTS
FEDERATION OF TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATIONS.
RELEASE ON DELIVERY
Mr. Chairman, it is an honor to address the Massachusetts
Federation of Taxpayers Associations. Your organization was formed
to battle against needless state appropriations that cost the taxpayers
money. You guard against improper and illegal expenditures and seek
to improve the administration of public affairs.
Your work is of paramount importance, especially in these
days when the costs of carrying on global warfare are sostaggering.
The Special Committee of the United States Senate to Investigate the
National Defense Program, of which I have the honor to be the Chairman,
has the same purpose as your Associations. Like your Associations, the
Committee is a watch-dog for the people, and an organized expression of
the common desire that every necessary military need and every necessary
service of government be adequately support;ed, but that not one cent be
spent neudlessly.
It is easy to appropriate billions of dollars, but it is not so
easy to obtain those billions of dollars. There is a limit to the
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amount by which we can safely increase our national debt.
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