Evening star., 1922-01-27
D. c. GETS NO SHARE
OF $75,o)Q,o1OU.S. S.
GIVES FOR ROADS
Yet $18,934, ,969 Was Paid in
Federal Taxes by Local
Taxpayers During Year.
BUT $113,6O0 NOW IN BILL
FOR STREET WORK HERE
Figures for Sixteen States Show
How Uncle Sam Has Divided Up
Funds for Aid Elsewhere.

Uncle Sam will hand out $4,000, 900
for road improvements throughout
the country during the present year.
Sixteen states which, individually.
paid less cash into the United States
Treasury in federal taxes during the
past fiscal year than did the Dis
trict of Columbia, will get more than
one fifth Of the amount authorized
for distribution in federal aid high
way projects, or a bit more than
100000 in all.
The District Of Columbia gets moth
ing.
The average amount available for
each of these sixteen states is $751;
900. This is federal cash which will
be added to state funds for road i'm
proyement.
District Is Ignored.
The District of Columbia, in it's own
appropriation bill for the fiscal year
of 1922. was limited to $144,S4o for
highway improvements, and in 1929
the amount provided for this purpose
by the House committee. which has
just reported the appropriation bill
out. is $4,000. This last amount just
happens to be about IL per cent Of
the average sum Of $961,000 which
is to be handed out to each of the six
teen states aforementioned. Not a cent
Of federal aid money is available for
the District out of the s75,00O,000
riads appropriation.
1t is to be noted. too. that half Of the
cost Of street paving. as provided for in
the District appropriation bill. is paid
for. through assessments, by the abut-
ting property owners. OF the remaining
half. the federal government pays 40 per
cent and that on an entirely different
basis and for entirely different reasons
than the government contributes money
for roadbuildirg in the states.
First of all. the federal highway act
amendment approved by the President
on November 9, 1921, places the $751;
600, 900 appropriation for federal aid on
roadways under the supervision of the
Secretary of Agriculture, under whose
jurisdiction comes the bureau of public
roads.
An allotment Of sas .ooo. 900 was made
Immediately available and the Secre-
tary of Agriculture apportioned this
amount to the various states within
ten days. The remaining s50.0O0.000
became available the first of the year
under the same apportionment. Forty
eight states were listed for various
amounts. The Districts name did not
figure in the list
$1S,934,069 Collected In ID. e.
AS to the Treasury Department cash
from which this sum will be extracted.
the annual report of the commissioner
of internal revenue for the past fiscal
year brings out the following facts:
The total amount of federal taxes
collected from the District of Columbia
taxpayers amounted to s18,934, ,969.90.
This included income and profits taxes,
the amusementS tax and all the other
miscellaneous taxes levied for internal
revenue. The Districts total of almost
$19 100000 was placed in the column
which. when added up with the totals
for the rest of the states, gave the
grand total of internal revenue of
$4.595, ,OO0.765.74.
Alabama was only $500. 900 behind the
District in federal taxes-with a total
of $1S.429,531.41. But Alabama will get
back more than one and one-half mil
lions of dollars from the federal gov
| ernment for her roads-s1, ,553, ,420.67 to
be exact-while the District street i'm
uovements are being handled during the
fiscal year OF 1922 on one-tenth Of this
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