Judsonia weekly advance., 1922-01-12
WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES

lowing comprehensive survey of how the taxes you pay to the government are apportioned in expenditures. It will give you the dearest and best idea of where your money goes. For his purpose Doctor Rosa took the actual appropriations for the fiscal year 1920, amounting to a total of $5,686, ,005, ,706, as given in the regular supply bills and three deficiency bills prior to May l, l 1920 For convenience he divided the purposes for which this money was spent into six groups as follows: Group I-Obligations arising from recent and previous wars, including interest on the public debt, pensions, war-risk insurance, rehabilitation and care of soldiers, deficit in the opera tion of railways, expenditures of the shipping board, European food relief and the bonus to government employ ees to cover partially the increased | cost of living due to the war, total of $3,855, ,4S2, ,5S8.
 Group II.-War and Navy depart l ments-expenses somewhat above permanent peace-time basis-$1, ,424,- 13S,677.
 Group III.-Primary governmental | functions, including congress, Presi- dent and White House staff, courts and penal establishments. departments of justice, state, treasury, interior, commerce, labor. interstate commerce, and other commissions, one-half the District of Columbia, N, luding all the necessary functions Sf government other than defense, except the com mercial activities of Group V and the research, educational and develop mental work of Group VI-$191, ,087,- 225.
 Group IV.-Public works, including rivers and harbors, public buildings, reclamation service, post roads, na- tional parks and railway in Alaska $16S, ,2O3,557.
 Group V.-Commercial or self-sup- porting activities, including the post office, land office, Panama canal and housing corporation, which, taken to- gether, earn their expenses. Group VI.-Research, educational and developmental, including the wide range of work of the Agricultural de- partment, geological survey, bureau of mines, coast and geodetic survey, bu- reau of standards, bureau of fisheries, bureau of foreign and domestic 'com- merce, bureau of labor statistics, women's and children's bureaus, voca- tional education, colleges for agricul- ture and mechanic arts, library of congress, Smithsonian institution and the public health service-$57 y ,093, ,661. Total groups I to VI-$5, ,e86, ,005. .706. Summary. Per Cent Group T. Expenditures
 arising from recent
 and previous wars. '. s, ,S55 4S2, 5S560 67S1 Group I-War and Navy
 departments .......... l, ,424, 13S, ,67657 25.02 l Group III--Primary gov
 ernmental functions. 1S1. .0S7, ,225.A 3.19 | Group IV-Public works 16S, ,203, 55746 2.97 l Group VI-Research, ed
 | ucational and devel-
 l opmental ............ 57093,66O9s Lo1
 
 Total .............@, ,6S6 COS, ,7O5 s7 100. co
 The first two groups together amount to 92S per cent of the total; 1; public works amounts to 3 per cent, primary governmental functions 3.2 per cent, and research, educational and developmental work, 1 per cent. The population of the country being about 110O00,0O0, the total budget Is about fifty dollars year per capita, of which fifty cents year Sper cap ita is expended for the wide range of | research, educational and develop mental work included in Group VI.
 That Is, of the fifty dollars year per capita collected for all purposes, dollar and half year per capita," Doctor Rosa went on to point out, twas spent for what is here called primary functions of government; ; nearly as much more was put into pub lie works, and fifty cents a year was put back into research, educational and developmental work, to promote scientific research, to increase produc- tion and efficiency, to develop wealth, to promote the public health and to conserve our natural resources. That Is very small part of the total hardly enough to be regarded as burden on the nation.
 Indeed, one Is led to wonder whether the total burden of taxation would not be lighter if the expendi- ture for scientific and developmental work were increased; if, for example. 1t were one dollar a year per capita instead of fifty cents In other words, if $110,000,000 were expended annu- ally for this creative and productive work, would 1t not be easier to collect the five and half billions for other pufposes?"
 The big money, of course, goes for war, past, present and future, and that Is where the saving must be made.
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