The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-13
The Disbursements in Twen-
ty States Exceed the
the Collections
A PROBLEM FOR
PARTY IN POWER
Industrial States Are Near
est Normal in This
Respect

| Washington, Jan. l3.-Pension dis
bursements in practically 20 states OF
the union exceed both the total and in
dividual internal revenue collections fol
these same states, according to figures
available from official sources. Further
more, the pension disbursements for the
last fiscal year were nearly S50000,OOO
greater than the revenue returns from
the emergency act, from the corporation
tax act, and from the individual income
tax. The publication of these facts here
is throwing a new light on the question
of governmental income and expendi
ture, a subject which is engrossing the
attention of the party in power.
The total receipts from revenue
sources during the last fiscal year were
approximately $4l5,000,000, and the PEN
sion disbursements amounted to Sl64,-
100000.
In Arkansas, Colorado, the District Of
Columbia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Ken
lucky, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska
New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Da-
kota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota,
Tennessee, West Virginia and Wyoming,
the pension disbursements ran far ahead
of the internal revenue receipts. In
Arkansas, for example, Sl,779,000 was
paid out by government i'll pensions,
and only $394,536 were taken in in rev.
enue; in Idaho pensions were more than
twice as great as revenue collections;
in Iowa pensions We're $562l,4l6 as
against S2,62l ,30S for revenues. The
showing made by Kansas is even worse,
..at H. -
81, l0l sos the pension disbursements rose
to S6,543,877. In Kentucky the pension
was nearly four times as large as rev.
enues. In Maine revenue was S7ls,0S4
as against $2,SSl asa for pensions. Even
a southern state, showed
similar record. for the revenue collee-
tions were 1924 900 as against $4,000
for pensions. New Hampshire collected
nearly 100000 in internal revenue and
received 81 100000 in pensions, Okla
homa's record was no better-S2, 302 600 |
for pensions and $4,000 for revenue. !
Apparently the industrial states where /
,he population is the most dense present !
more normal conditions. The pension |
in Massachusetts,. for ex- |
nipple, were about half of the internal /
eyenue collections; in Illinois, 81 .000,-
100 were disbursed in pensions and $751;
100000 were collected from internal rev.
nue. sources. New York got $l3,000,000
n pensions and paid into the treasury
76000,000 in revenue. Pennsylvania
aid in S37,000,000 in revenue, receiving
little over Sl5,0O0,000 in pensions. q
II, there were IL states to which in
ernal revenue receipts heavily exceeded
ension expenditures. Among these
tates, including those already men
ioned, were Louisiana, Maryland, Cali
ornia, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Min
esota, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio
nd Wisconsin.
In many states in which revenue ex-
aeded pensions, the difference was so
nall as to be almost neglible. In Ala
anna, for example, the excess of rev.
nue. over expenditures was about S. a
DO; in Arizona it was $4,000; in Della [
are it was less than 100000; in Rhode /
'land about 100000; in South Caro- !
ma a little over 100000. In
As might be expected, the southern
ates, with one or two exceptions, show +
4 excess of revenue over pension dis u
easements. lC