Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1754

Notes by Heath for letter to a Congressman written at the request of Margot Luker, presumably for her and others’ signatures.

May 1958

     We, your constituents, want a tax cut. We want more business, more production (lower prices) through a bit of unshackling of all these. And we want it right now, for a healthy economic rebound and not a slow dosing through public works and other wild give-aways at home and abroad towards eventual inflationary collapse.

     Government should cease bleeding us into economic anemia and let employment revive if for no better reason than to save its only source of future revenue. Let us have relief today so we can recover right now.

    High taxation is self-defeating: The more taxes are taken, the less there will be to spend them for. If the Government wants more eggs, it must ease up on the goose and cut its coat out of the cloth it has, with less feather-bedding by featherheads. Let it retrench. It has too many feather heads in feather beds. And it must not forever drain away our wealth and welfare with its phony dollars and pretended bank loans and other endless borrowings that it never can repay save by more of the same.