The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-03-11
THE STATE TAX DOLLAR.
Statement Shows How Public Money
is Expended.

The Republican state committee has
issued a pamphlet showing the manner
in which state taxes are expended 1t
bears an illustration showing the dol
lar divided into the various elements
of departmental expense. For example,
% 1-2 cents for public works, high
ways, etc.; "a cents for educational
institutions; about 10 cents for charit
able and penal institutions; over 10
cents for interest and sinking funds
etc.
The above illustration is a striking
INSTALLATION of the division of your
state tax dollar. 1t shows the actual
number of cents from it for each de-
partment and it disposes Of much mis-
information being distributed for polit
ical effect as to state taxes.
Taxes are bound to be higher when
everything else is higher. The increase
in the cost of conducting public bust
ness is relatively as great as the in
crease in the cost of conducting private
business or as the increase in our
homes. That is generally conceded
The only question is as to the necessity
for certain public expenditures.
When we examine the chart, which
is absolutely correct, we find of this
dollar II cents is represented by the
cost of educational, penal and charit-
able institutions, public works and In
terest and sinking fund, leaving only
20 cents for everything else.
Weaken Schools ? No!
Shall We curtail our educational in.
situations or weaken them? The vote
in the last legislature was unanimously
mo" Not a member of either house
voted against the educational institu-
lions appropriation.
Shall the departments devoted to the
welfare of the farmers be curtailed or
weakened as to their efficiency? Every
member Of the legislature, with one ex-
ception, said mo" by voting 81, 140.-
900 to be used exclusively for the
farming interests of the state This
action secures over $225,OOO from the
federal government, making q total
for the farmers of Idaho Of over ST..
100000 for the two year period.
Idaho Highways.
Shall public works, the most of
which ic ,.oprocaptad nv, 1;ohrrox, b,,t1a
ing, be neglected? The Legislature
said mo" by voting without dissent
ing voice in either house, for the bill
making provision for bonds for the
highways, by voting for Snake river
improvements in Madison and Jeffer-
son counties with only one dissenting
vote in both houses, by voting .unani-
mously in each house for the Kootenai
river bridge, by voting unanimously in
the senate, and with one dissenting
vote in the house for the road tax levy
Of two mills, which raises $1,956O0O
by voting for the Star-McCall high
way, with but one dissenting vote in
Cne mousse ana IL In the senate and so
on and as further denoting broad
ly the legislative disposition, by voting
unanimously in the house, and with
but one dissenting voice in the senate
for the $2,OOOOOO state ad valorem
tax.
The states obligations must be met
so er interest and sinking fund must
be provided. None would for a moment
favor reputation by the great state of
Idaho
Acted for People.
These legislators came fresh from
the people and understood the public
desires and devoted with practically
one voice for the items that represent
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