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Page 6-C Senator Sam CrvinSays... WASHINGTON The Sen ate has opened another Pan dora’s box which is almost certain to accelerate the day when the federal govern ment will have to choose be tween imposing confiscatory taxes or confess national bankruptcy. This time the occasion was the passage of S. 750, a bill to provide up to $50,000 and certain other benefits for vic tims of violent crime. Only eight senators voted against the bill. I was one of those who opposed its passage. I have the utmost compas sion for any individual who suffers from any criminal act. Ip recent years I have fought many legislative battles to protect society against crim inals. My zeal in behalf of “law and order"’ has not dim inished. I think that swift and speedy justice for the criminal would do much to) deter crime ;Yid violence. But what we have in this bill is another effort to use an empty federal treasury to relieve the criminal of the conse-| quenccs of his acts. I might; add that the costs are bound j •to accelerate in the years ahead. Advocates of the measure pointed to the need for sueh legislation and said that it will only cost millions of dol lars annually at a time when the federal government is al ready spending billions of dol lars for welfare, income se curity and other programs. The trouble with this argu ment is that it is constantly used to justify about any kind of new federal program. Only 5 few days ago the Senate overwhelmingly approved (without my vote) a so-called revenue-sharing measure to give the stales, counties and I cities $33.5 billion. Little was j said by its advocates about' the fact that the federal gov ernment is expected to incur an estimated $35 billion defi cit for the current fiscal year. Instead, that bill was pro moted on the grounds that the states do not have sufficient resources to perform obliga. lions they have assumed. As could be expected, the justification for revenue shar ing was ignored when it came time to justify the crime com pensation bill. Better that it was, for its proponents now seek to encourage Ihe states i to embark upon lew pro- j grams compensating crime I victims notwithstanding the fact shat Congress is aware of the inability of the states to finance the bill. The irony of all of this is that Congress will bo called upon in a few days to extend and increase the $450 billion debt coiling, a semi-annual ritual for this calendar year. I recognize Hint in bringing these matters to public at tention that I am performing an almost futile lask. The American people have been convinced by presidents and members of Congress that there is nothing to worry about. The President recent ly went so far as to promise that if he. is re-elected, he will not raise taxes during the next four years. The situation reminds one of the story of the king who wore no clothes and all of the citizens of the kingdom who were reluctant to tell him so. Still anyone who cares to look will see that the federal gov ernment is not an clecomosy nary institution. Inflation, uncontrolled spending, our in ability to market - Aur goods abroad, and taxes arc related to federal spending programs. We cannot ignore these eco nomic facts as if they were some fantasy. Every journey to an unwise end starts with a single step. The crime compensation bill is the first step toward gov ernmental compensation of a whole new area of individual losses and injuries. If any one doubts this, he should re flect that there is no more justification for compensating victims of violent crimes than there is for compensating vic tims of fraudulent crimes. One suffers just as much as one who is robbed of his earnings. The message in this trend is clear. Wc cannot provide all things to all citizens free. 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