Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-09-06
few STATES NOT
GOING INTO DEBT
Only Nineteen of the Forty-Eight
Are Living Entirely With
in income.
OTHERS FACE A SHORTAGE
In Most Cases, However, Where Elk
penses Exceed Revenues, Money
Is Spent in Securing Perma-
nent improvements

Nineteen of the As states compris-
ing the United States are living entire
| ly within their incomes That is. they
are paying for all their permanent Inn
provements and taking care of all their
| interest charges. as well as paying all
their current government expenses, out
/ of their current revenues. This was
the case, at least in the fiscal year
/ 1915, according to Uncle Sans figures.
A report prepared by the bureau of
census shows that the 10 states which
accomplished this feat were New
Hampshire, Ohio. Indiana, Illinois,
Minnesota. Iowa, North Dakota, South
Dakota. Nebraska. Delaware. Virginia,
/ Georgia. Florida, Texas Montana. Ida
no, Wyoming. New Mexico and Wash
! ington.
/ The greatest excess Of revenues over
total expenditures. S7.303,26T, was
shown by Illinois. Other states in
which the excess was more than ST.
| 100000 were Minnesota, with S29l2,-
396; Texas. $2.359,07G; Ohio, SOB
229, and Washington. $l.076.l07. The
| greatest per capita excess of revenues
over expenditures. however. appears
for New Mexico. $l47; Minnesota,
with S1.32 is next in order. and Illinois,
with S1.22. stands third.
New York Deepest in Debt
New York went deeper in debt than
any other state in the Union. That
state spent S27,T21, 2G4 more than it
received in current revenues. Cali
fOrnia is second in this list with an
excess of S9.4S0,116 Of expenditures
over receipts. Maryland is third with
an excess of S4.057,3l6 The great
! est per capita excess of expenditures
over revenues, S3.3S, appears for Cali
fornia; the next highest. S3.03. for
| Maryland, and the third highest, S2.Sl.
! for New York.
In - of the As states the excess of
| expenditures for governmental costs,
including interest and outlays for per
manent improvements, over revenues,
during the fiscal year 1915, was $50
/ 2S3, 404. or Sc cents per capita.
For the AZ states taken together,
the payments for governmental costs,
! including interest and OUTLAWS for rer-
manent improvements. exceeded the
revenues by S36,674,4 S7 but che rev
enues exceeded the current expenses
and interest by $5S.5lS,312, an amount
more than three-fifths as great as that
of the total outlays, which aggregated
500. 1872, 100. In other words, the states,
taken as a group. are paying, from
theis revenues, all their current ex-
penses and interest and more rban
! three-fifths of their OUTLAWS.
Aggregate Revenues $45s, 232, 597.
The aggregate revenues of all the
states during the year were S45S,23 :
597; the aggregate expenditures for
! current governmental costs, including
interest. 1899, ia. 2S5; and the aggre-
gate OUTLAWS for permanent improve
ments, 500, 1872, 799.
OF the total revenues, $685., 543, 797,
| or about four-fifths, represented re
| ceipts fror the various kinds of taxes.
| About BALI # this amount, $1S5 S76,-
! $40. was derived from the general
property tax, made up of taxes on real
estate and personal property. OF the
| remainder, the largest item. SS2.S
SS2, was contributed by special prop
erty and other special taxes; 1881
116 was raised from business taxes
other than on the liquor traffic; 500
799.071 came from the liquor traffic ;
! $14, S6S, 254 was derived from license
| taxes other than on business; and 49,
198.155. from poll taxes.
Much Spent on Roads.
The total outlays for permanent i'm
prpvements aggregated 500, 1872, 799 OF
this amount $50 PAT 1913, or nearly one
third, was spent for the construction
of new roads and the permanent i'm.
provement-such as macadamizing or
paving-of existing ones. In addition,
$12.476. ~ was apportioned by the
states to their counties, municipalities.
and other minor civil divisions for use
in the construction. Improvement, and
maintenance of roads; and con
siderable portion of this sum was
employed in construction and per-
manent Improvement The greatest
outlays for roads by individual states
were reported for New York, S9393.-
1855; California, S6,575,2G0. and Mary
land, S3,773,223 The greatest per
capita expenditure for construction and
permanent Improvement of roads, how
ever S2.S2, was made by Maryland.
Only % states-the six New England
states, New York. New Jersey. Penn
syiyanfa, Illinois. Michigan, Wi-con-
sin. Minnesota Maryland. Arkansas.
Louisiana, Idaho. New Mexico. Arizona.
Utah, and the three Pacific coast states
expended money directly on the con.
struction aud Improvement Of loads
during the fiscal year. but a number OF
the other states apportiohed SUNS to
counties. municipalities. etc, which
were spent ;n The constructor and I'M
provgnent of roa6ls. Fourteen safes.
however. reported neither OUTLAWS nos
appDrtlonmeu'~ for this purpose
Japan Has Big Cites.
Census returns for the SIX big cities
of japan az the end Of last year. as
announced by The Yokohama mumci-