The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-07-10
TAXPAYERS TO
PAY The BILLS
Green Measure VIII Cost State
S2,0OO,OOO Annually.
PEOPLE CAN ESCAPE BURDEN

Plan Proposed by Ohio Equity Asso-
citation, Which VIM Be Voted On az
November Election, LeVies Cost Of
Administering Compulsory Compen.
sation Fund Against Industries AZ
fected, Same as Bark and Building
and Loan inspection Bureaus.
Columbus, O. --(Special)- State,
ments given cut by the state liability
board Of awards tLat the cost Of ad-
ministratiCn of the state insurance
fund under the voluntary compensa-
tion act during the past year has moi
exceeded in amount 10 per cent 0t
the premiums collected, are interpre
ted to mean that the cost viii not be
greater unutT the Green compensa
tion act If the taxpayers do not vote
it down next November. II is gener-
ally conceded that under tbs act the
premiums which employers will pay
to tie state viii approximate $4,000
600 a year. II the state board is able
to keep the cost of administration az
low as under the voluntary compen
sation act, it will therefore amount
to $2,000,0O0 a year.
Assuming that the figures given out
by the state liability board are cor
rect, this means that the taxpayers of
Ohio will have to dig down again in
their pockets every year and give un
$2,000,000 mere than they are now
giving.
1t is because of this feature of the
Green act, taken in connection with
the Warnes and Fitzpatrick acts, that
many people characterize the last
general assembly as a mad-house Of
taXspenders.
State house officials are apprehen-
sive that the Green act is in grave
danger of defeat at the hands of in
dignant taxpayers. They say the at.
guments used by the administration
with members of the legislature to
persuade them to saddle this great
expense on the taxpayers will have no
weight when offered to the taxpayers
themselves. If the $2,000,000 cost of
administration was added to the pre-
miums to be paid by employers II
would, in turn, be added by them TO
the cost of production and would be
paid by the consumers 1t is said that
IS per cent of the products manufac
tured in Ohio are sold in other states
and in other countries. The Green
act makes the taxpayers of Ohio hold
the bag for these people.
It is admitted that if the people
vote down the Green act in November
the general assembly, which Governor
Cox will call into special session in
January, will e once enact into Law
the substitute compensation measure
proposed by the Ohio Equity assocla
ton. This measure does not place :
penny OF expense on the taxpayers
1t follows the principle laid down II
the acts providing for regulation an
inspection of banks and building an
loan associations, which departments
cost many thousands OF dollars every
year, but no part of which win here
after he paid out of the tax funds.
Some employers, it is reported, ar
supporting the Green act because i
does compe! the taxpayers to con
tribute to the cost Of industry to tn
| tune of $2U00,000 a year State Off
| cials rely on these employers to Civ
them a lot of help in defeating tn
referendum. But for every short
sighted employer who has taken hi
stand with the taXspenders to dunn
this $4,000 600 wad on the home-owr
ers there VIII be hundreds OF taXpa1
ers who will vote against the Gree
act.