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 9. IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15.4.49 (people.)

Something can be said in favor of certain price increases perhaps costing the consumer less than some taxes are now costing him. Too much of the price of too many materials and products is collected by the Tax Bureau of the government instead of in the market.

Whatever these subsidies may be, and whatever the amount of them may be considered necessary, they should and must be paid from tax revenues and not from the proceeds of the U.S. aid. By the transfer of these subsidies from the foreign trade account and making them a charge to government revenues it has been possible to set up the Counterpart Fun [sic] as the equivalent of U.S. aid imports.

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