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The Most Insidious

David Cutler, editor-publisher

The Merchant Magazine

4500 Campus Drive

Newport Beach, Calif .92660

Dear Dave:

I enjoyed reading your editorial "It's an L of o Situation" (April p. 6) and am wholly in agreernent with its message.

Unfortunately, governmental regula- tion conles about because people demand public policies without considering them in economic terms. When governmental actions increase the cost of production, prices must be raised on the products and services sold to the public.

This hidden cause of inflation is the most insidious form of all because neither government decision makers nor the public recognize the significance of their actions. These governmental actions are not designed to increase prices, but the inflationary result is the same, nonetheless. The irony is that it is the consumer who pays in the end. And the bitterness is that inflation is a hidden tax that always falls most heavily on those who can least afford it.

Sincerely,

Alfred X. Baxter President

J. H. Baxter & Co. 1700 South El Camino Real San Mateo, Ca.94402

Cost Of Government

Dear Dave: Your editorial, "It's An L of a Situation" in the April issue of The Merchant is a very good one. I think all of us should hammer this government regulation business as much as possible.

One of our best builders in the Phoenix area who specializes in quality, larger homes really shook up the Scottsdale Rotary Club a few months ago when he told them the cost of government regulations was more than his labor costs.

Don't forget, all government regulations, whether direct or indirect, improvement districts, whether city, state, county or federal are nonproductive. Despite labor costs, labor is at least productive. Let's pound this into everybody we can about what it is costins us.

And the cost of wood Lowry Wyatt, senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser, told us at a meeting in San Francisco a year and a half ago that 26% of their cost of lumber and plywood is government regulations.

There ought to be some way we could get rid of the bureaucratic lawyers we have to deal with today. For example, here in Arizona, all our cutting of timber is on government land. lf XYZ Lumber Co. is cutting on Forest Service land and there is a legal problem, the problem is sent to the legal department of the Forest Service in Washington, D.C.; it then goes to the legal department of the Department of Agriculture because that is over the Forest Service; it then goes to the legal department of the Department of Justice. Imagine, on a simple legal question the XYZ Lumber Co. might have to wait months to get a decision! So they have to send somebody to Washington to see that it gets through these three legal departments.

It is just a shame the American businessman cannot operate any more in a free enterprise system but has to take dictation from bureaucrats who are prosecutor, judge and jury.

Kindest regards,

James C. O'Malley Chairman of the Board

The O'Malley Companies P.O. Box 3558 Phoenix, Az. 85030

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