Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-13
WAR COSTS, PAST & FUTURE
DESCRIBED BY HASklN
Daily Letter by Frederic j.. Haskin

, mont can be reduced. With the pos
sibilitv of the bonus bill becoming
| law. not only can there be no re-
duction in government income, but
a very large increase.
This years expenses are lower
| too. because the government now is
| completely out of the railroad BUSH
ness in the country, except for Its
supervision through the agency OF
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. The losses due to government
operations during and Immediately
| after World War were a tremen-
dous item which had to be met by
| the taxpayers. Also, the loss in the
government shipping business was
enormous. This loss still exists. but
Is very much lower than hereto
fore.
Outlay For the Army
The Army alone will cost almost
as much for the year 1922 as the
normal expenses of the government
the expenses of administration
and constructive work. The fig
ure for this latter business is
placed roughly at $3.50, 000. 900,
while the support of the Army in
all of its branches will cost about
s425. 900. 600.
The Navy, due to the agreement
between the powers of the world to
limit the size of naval ornaments.
! will cost considerably less, than the
| army, but still in the neighborhood
of a third of a billion dollars. The
heavy items of battle ship and other
naval construction are shorn from
the expense, but it remains suffi-
GENTLY heavy to cause a bit of
thinking.
The income the government will
receive from scrapping battleships
will offset to some extent the naval
appropriation. Thousands and
thousands of tons of the highest
grade steel and no little amount Of
brass will be retrieved from the
ships which are strapped, and this
metal will bring in some money.
However, the value of the materials
is very low as compared to the cost
of building a battleship, and the re-
turn on the materials OF the dis
mantled masters of the sea may
prove very disappointing from that
angle.
If the bonus bill becomes a law
the House already has passed it
Congress will have to turn its at
tention NEW to the question of rails
ing funds. The members of Con-
eress are faced with offending the
strong factions of ex-service men by
refusing to vote for a bonus pay
ment of some sort, on the hand
and the certain antipatby of the
public against !evying greater taxes
on business and on individuals.
There hove been so many con-
ficting estimates of how much the
bonus would cost the government
that il Is impossible to tell accu-
rately what the additional drain on
Uncle's Sans pocketbook would
amount to. Because of this, it is
impossible to lay out the theory of
new taxation legislation which
would prove adequate to meeting
the additional strain on the treas
uhy. A sales tax has been suggest
ed repeatedly, but whether such a
Offset the bonus is a question which
has ardent supporters OF both sides.
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