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A EP PS Fg TH R080. by. Boh. Wallace. Times: State: 4 Harry Miesse . .'. watchdog of public finances.

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- Is "Lobbyist for the People’

Chances are, you never heard of Harry Miesse. ; You probably don’t even know he saved the people of indiana more than $250 million as the “watchdog” of city, county and state

either. He thinks you are either too timid, unconcerned or just plain

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lazy to do anything about the] increasing cost of government, Mr. Miesse, you might already have guessed, is a tax expert. | And, he’s also a lobbyist, as he puts it, “for the people.” | Now he is chairman of the board of the Indiana Taxpayers Association, an organization he formed 30 years ago “to eliminate waste and extravagance in government.” He is 84 years old. Who Makes High Taxes? That he has succeeded, despite the cold indifference of the pe ple for whom he has labored—| the taxpayers—doesn’t seept too unusual to him. But sonietimes it makes him mad. He feels that the men and women who benefit from tax savings should Join the fight, Zz The butcher, baker and housewife like to believe they don’t make high taxes. Mr. Miesse says they do. = : 1 “Politicians make high taxes, t do-gooders ake high taxes and government spenders make high taxes,” he says, “but only because the people’ let them.” Mr, of believes the farmer, drug sf clerk and barber all help to boost .taxes higher by

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‘own money,” he says matter-of-‘factly. “When they wake up it ; / may be too late.” Mr. Miesse emphasized that he ¥o was “sympathetic” to appeals for | | help on necessary expenditures. - “I'm for education, I'm for hosb pitalization,” he says, “but I! | don't want our money squan-| i dered.” ; 3 : “Phoney” Budgets Ended / Elimination of “phoney” budg-' § ets and “padded expenses” fol-| / lowed in the wake of Mr. Miesse’s| organizing the taxpayers associ-| ation. Mr. Miesse and his staff of|

assistants, however, continue toes are bound to go higher. And be on the alert for similar tactics, he sees no reason why the cities |

along with what he considers “foolish spending and waste.” Right now, Mr. Miesse is con-| cerned about budgets from every city and county in the state be) cause of the recent reassessment

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. He frankly b 2D PWEAG of ‘embarking on a $12 million school building program at this| time, putting an additional 20-| cent levy on the tax rate for five| years. If the building program is i essential, he says, why doesn’t] a the school group spread the-levy, over 10 to 20 years. cee di8: 38. 00. less disturbed over the) NEE proposed. welfare budget, calling

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for nearly $6 million in taxes. He!

compared the proposal to the 1946 budget of $2 million. Jump of $4 Million “In four years,” he said, “the! budget should not have increased by four million dollars.” We are living in another period of relative prosperity, he said. ¥More people are working now

people are unemployed than at

Therefore, Mr. Miesse wants the answer to “Why do they demand! more money?” All we can do is get the facts for the people, Mr. Miesse said. “We'll furnish the ammunition,” he told The Times, “but we want the people to fire the gun.” The gray-haired Mr. continues to amaze visitors by prancing around the room, striking unusual poses and pulling on his suspenders during conferences. Flew can believe the energetic tax expert will soon be 85 years old.

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Up to People .. He is proud of his small organization, supported entirely by voluntary contributions, and. its accomplishments. He credits the association with “breaking up the! rotten school bus system” 258 years ago. “Don’t write anything about me,” he told a Times reporter. “People don’t care how much I! like raising tulips or that I was born in Decatur, Write about how much the people can save if they ant, : “Tell the people they can stop it. I've been at it now for 58 years and I get pretty tired.” With the federal government called upon to finance the Korean war, Mr. Miesse says federal tax-

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and state can’t hold the line, f “We cannot remain silent when | we see so many officials and so,

that more money be spent at! home next year,” z ed

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