The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-09-01
Only Nineteen of the Forty-Eight
Are. Living Entirely With
in Income.
OTHERS face A SHORTAGE
In Most Cases, However, Where FIX.
penses Exceed Revenues, Money
Is Spent In Securing Perma-
nent improvements.

ng the United States are living entire
" within their incomes. That is, they
are paying for all their permanent i'm
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, mt least in the fiscal year
1915. according to Uncle Sans figures.
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
ho, Wyoming, New Mexico and Wash
ington.
The greatest excess Of revenues over
total expenditures, S7,3O3,267, was
shown by Illinois. Other states in
which the excess was more than ST.
OOO,OOO were Minnesota, with S2.912,-
396; Texas S2,359,O76; Ohio. $2,2O5,-
229, and Washington, S1,0I6,1O7 The
greatest per capita excess of revenues
over expenditures, however, appears
for New Mexico, S1.47; Minnesota,
with $1.32 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 S27,721,2 ,2G4 more than it
received in current revenues. Cali
fornia is second in this list with an
excess of S9,4SO,116 of expenditures
over receipts. Maryland is third with
an excess of $4,O57,316 The great
est per capita excess of expenditures
over revenues $33S, appears for Cali
fornia the next highest, S3O3, for
Maryland, and the third highest S2.S1,
for New York.
In 90 of the 4S states the excess of
expenditures for governmental costs,
including interest and outlays for per-
manent improvements, over revenues,
during the fiscal year 1915, was $55,-
2S3,4Oi, or S6 cents per capita.
For the 4S states taken together,
the payments for governmental costs,
including interest and outlays for per-
manent improvements, exceeded the
revenues by S36,674, ,4S7 but the rev.
enues exceeded the current expenses
and interest by S5S,51S,312, an amount
more than three-fifths as great as that
Of the total outlays, which aggregated
500, 1872, ,199. In other words, the states,
taken as group, are paying, from
their revenues, all their current ex-
penscs and interest and more than
three-fifths of their outlays.
Aggregate Revenues sass, ,232, ,5e7.
The aggregate revenues of all the
states during the year were $45S, ,232,-
97; the aggregate expenditures for
current governmental costs, including
interest, S399,714,2S5; and the aggre-
gate outlays for permanent improve
ments, 500, 1929
OF the total revenues, S365, 5,543 ,797,
or about four-ffths, represented re-
ceipts from the various kinds of taxes
About half of this amount, $1S5,S ,S76,-
319, was derived from the general
property tax, made up of taxes on real
estate and personal property. OF the
remainder, the largest item, So, ,S70,-
$50, was contributed by special prop
erty and other special taxes; S57 1884,
116 was raised from business taxes
other than on the liquor traffic; $780,
199,O11 came from the liquor traffic
S14,S6S,254 was derived from license
taxes other than on business; and 49,
19S, ,155, from poll taxes.
Much Spent on Roads.
The total outlays for permanent i'm
provements aggregated 500, 1872, ,799. OF
this amount $50, PAT ,593, or nearly one
third, was spent for the construction
of new roads and the permanent i'm
provement-such as macadamizng or
paving-of existing ones. In addition,
$12,476,122 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, $9,393,-
1855; California, S6,575, ,260, 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 23 states-the six New England
states, New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota, Maryland, Arkansas,
Louisiana, Idaho, New Mexico Arizona,
Utah, and the three Pacific coast states
expended money directly on the con
struction md Improvement of roads