New Britain herald., 1923-01-29
NEW BRITAIN MEN AT
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 title for his address. but it might have
 been headed stand in Your owI Shoes" He spoke of the growinf custom of running to the state eapito or national capitol for financial aid whenever a town or a state imagines that 1t must undertake new eonstruc. ton work or the operation Of a new system of government. He warned against state and federal aid as de- privng a community of self-respect and also because. in return for such aid. the community or state must sur render some of its authority and in- dependence.
 Why Taxes Arc Mounting.
 Ex-Governor Lowden said in part:
 "one prolific cause of rapidly in- creasing cost of government is to be found in the number of public agencies that have authority to levy taxes. There is the federal govern ment, there is the state government, there is the local municipal govern ment. In many states. there is the school board. All of these have the power independently of one another to impose taxes. In addition, where the bonding power has been reached by the municipality. there has been a growing tendency to create a new district for some new purpose cov- ering the same territory already oc- cupied by other municipalities. And then in many states, besides all these, there are so-called improvement dis tricts. The taxes levied by any one may seem insignificant, but when all the taxes are totaled, they al- ready dangerously approach confis- cation in many cases. Nor is the line of demarcation between these several jurisdictions clearly observed. ltes for purposes which properly be- ong to the state. The state is urged | III the while to appropriate for ob- ects for which the local communi- ies themselves should care. This | 'esults in endless duplication in cost If administration and consequent | 
 uSuASC Ol IOIh IDdIISA.
 What has come to be known as pork barrel legislation is generally ondemned. However, whenever it is to expend public money lpon any object whatsoever in any community. we find the people of that as a whole back of the project. Representatives and sena- ors in Congress are held responsi- ,le for pork barrel legislation. The act is that severally they are yield ng only to the opportunities ot their wn constituents. Everybody Is gainst all pork barrel legislation xcept that in favor of his own com- ,unity. In fact, the people of a con ressional district or a legislative istrict frequently by reelection eward their member for securing an appropriation for their district, while pork barrel legislation , whole. Since. however, they ave no influence in the election of embers beyond their own district, lis general condemnation is of no yail. z "The people seem to act on the ! cory that it is always laudable to 7 t whatever money they can from f e public treasury for their own { They seem to feel that is costs them nothing. They will k for an armory, for post office Hiding, or improvement of a creek lich one time contained water ough to bear an Indian canoe, with o
 the earnestness in the world. At ,, e same time they would not think :, voting taxes upon themselves to = fray the cost of the project. They ss rget that while they are doing this n her communities all over the state ~ d all over the nation, as the case !. " be, are doing precisely the same ng. So the cost in the end to z em is just as great as though they d voted the taxes upon themselves the improvement. |
 "State Aid' Improper.
 The farther removed the particu- :.
 public treasury be, the more the v. ,ple appear to believe they are a ting something for nothing when i,, " seek an appropriation. It fol- ;. ,s that the local municipality III ,uld be required to provide its own ., 'enues for it's own needs and ', ,uld not be given aid by the state. e, q, sewise the state should be com V, led to provide its own funds for p rely state needs, Lastly. the fed ] government should appropriate si y for those interests which are W rely of national concern and clear sl within the purposes for which the al eral union was established. No al re expensive phrases have been ci ented in recent years than state ca and federal aid e' There is scarce a domain in the pf d of government properly belong ae
 to the municipality of the state e, ich the federal government is not ds king to invade by the use of the co cious phrase federal aid.' Educa- ar I, public health. private employ in mt are few instances which yc