Evening star., 1930-12-09

thirty millions Of dollars. The Nation
contributed nine millions in lumn s1n
for Capital maintenance. This lumn
sum appropriation Cndeed the national
contribution toward Capital develop
ment In any and every form) has been
described as a gratuity, beggars' aims.
money wrung from the scanty earnings
of the Congressman's outraged con-
Stituent to ease the tax burdens of the
mendicantS, tax-dodgers and robbers of
the District Of Columbia. This unde-
served vilif1cation has aroused a preju-
dice In the House against the District
which it Is hard to eradicate.
The report to the collector of Inter-
nal Revenue d1Scloses the contributors
to these national taxes and the amounts
OF their respective contributions.
the only national taxes that fall di-
rectiy and unmistakably and in ascer-
ta1nable amounts upon Americans are
their internal revenue taxes, and they
constitute three-fourths of Uncle Sans
total receipts. The collectors report
Ior 1880 shows that the District paid in
tneSe taxes In that year $15,724, ,675. ~.
sno tnat 70 (more than half of the
states contributed less than the Dis
trict to the Treasury in internal reve-
nue. taxes. These States are as follows !.
Aiaoama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado.
georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine
MISSISSIPPI, Montana, Nebraska. Nevada
New Hampshire, New Mexico. North
Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island. south
carolina, South Dakota, Utah. Vermont
washington, West Virginia and Wyo.
ming. WV
Nearly Equal 10 States Combined.
"Ten States combined contributed 10
tnese national taxes only a trifie more
tnan the District alone. These States
are: ARIZONA, Idaho, Mississippi, Mon
tana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Ds-
kota, South Dakota, Vermont and wvo-
ming, whose combined internal revenue
TAX payments aggregate $15,774,342 .99.
70 De compared with the Districts con.
tribution Of SIS, ,724,675.72.
Ihese 10 States are represented In
Congress by 20 Senators and 2i Rem
reSentatlves. The total representation
OF the District is 0.
. Inc Districts per capita contribu-
lion 10 these national taxes is sag. 90.
IN per capita contribution only five
SEates OF tne Union exceed the Dis
nois, New York, North Carolina and
Virginia. OF all the other 43 States
the average citizen contributes less than
the average WaShingtonian.
Ine WaShingtonian's per capita
contribution to the Treasury In in
ternal revenue taxes ($32.29) exceeds
the combined per capita contribution
OF the following States: Alabama
$3.7D, Arkansas ($l.70, Georoia
($4.3D, Idaho $3.50, Mississippi
S1.0D, Montana ($4.87), Nebraska
($4.1D, New Mexico ($2.16), North
Dakota ($.8D, South Carolina ($1.74),
South Dakota ($1.28), wyoming $3.50,
with an aggregate per capita contribu-
ton Of $1,000. In other words, one
Washingtonian contributes more than
the combined contributions Of one Ala
baman, one Arkansan, one Georgian
one Idahoan, one Mississippian, one
Montanan, one Nebraskan, one New
Mexican, one North Dakotan, one
South Carolinian, one South Dakotan
and one WyUmingite, IL in all, from
States with "a Representatives in the
Senate and So Representatives in the
House, where the District has no rep
resentation at all.
Contributions Compared.
''The national internal revenue taxes
are used to pay not only the nine or
nine and one-half millions Of lump sum
payment toward Capital maintenance
and development, but the millions
spent in the grand program of national