"The task of public authority, like that of private individuals, will be to distribute this increase in accordance with relative need. Schools and road will then no longer be at a disadvantage . . . The practical solution would be much eased were the revenues of the federal government available for the service of social balance. . . . The test is not that high military costs make reductions in other public outlays necessary. Rather, it is whether, given these military outlays (which may be regretted), we are more in need of the services that improve social balance or the additional private goods with which we are more affluently supplied than ever before."-Source: John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, The Affluent Society, 1958The excerpt most directly reflects a growing belief after 1945 that:

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