Evening star., 1932-12-07
SALES TAX SOUGHT
WITH NEW PAY CUT
No Mention Is Made of Levy
on Beer in 1884 Budget
Message.
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way would total $127,0o0,o00, and
would be brought about by knocking
pensions, compensation and allowances
now being paid from the rolls.
This would be done by limiting all
benefits, except to ex-soldiers with
claims based on active service at over
IS, to persons with a net income, If
single, of less than 81 500. and If mar
ried, of less than $500. Wholesale re-
examination Of those now on the rolls
would be followed by removal at the
end of six months or 80 days, depending
on category, of all not qualifying under
the new terms.
Many specific forms of benefit would
be reduced, including compensation to
veterans receiving disqualification, and
stringent administrative regulation
would limit further additions to the
rolls.
The District of Columbia comes in
for its share in the pairing down of
governmental expenditures; the budget
proposes total appropriation for the
District of $39,743,270, as compared to
$44, ,497, ,622 for the present fiscal year,
button Of $7,775, 900. The total reduc-
ton for the District, amounting to $4,-
54,352, includes $2,426,095, due to re-
auctions predicated on carrying out the
Presidents recommendations for econ
s2,s2s,S57.
The President estimated that the
present fiscal year, ending June 80,
$685. would wind up, with a deficit for
the Government Of $1,146,478,307. The
expenditures this year, the President
said, would total s3,770. .735, 900 and the
receipts $2,624,256,693.
Stresses Economy Need.
Seeking to impress on the Congress
the need of the greatest economy in
expenditure during the coming fiscal
year, the President said:
Notwithstanding the large reduc-
tion in expenditures estimated for the
current fiscal year below those in the
fiscal year 1882, and the increased rev.
eniles anticipated during this year un-
der the revenue laws enacted at the last
session of Congress, large excess OF
expenditures with consequent increase
in the public debt is anticipated for the
current fiscal year.
"Such situation cannot be contin-
ued without disaster to the Federal
finances.s The recommendations herein
presented to the Congress for further
drastic reductions in expenditures and
increased revenues viii serve to prevent
q further increase in the public debt
during the fiscal year 1894 only II Con-
gress will refrain from placing addi-
tional burdens upon the Federal Treas
ury; .,..
effort be made to limit expenditures
and avoid additional obligations not
heavily burdened taxpayer but in the
interest of the very integrity OF the
finances of the Federal Government"
Military Funds Cut:
The budget knocks a total Of $46.-
0le,000 from the military appropria-
tiors for the Army and Navy, reducing
the estimates to 1886, ,4A9 600, as COM
pared to appropriations of $6S2. .466, 900
for the present fiscal year. The pr1n-
cipal item Of decrease Is Army con-
struction. The President said that the
program of construction for the Army
had progressed to point where
postponement of further construction
could be made at this time. The esti-
mates for the Navy provide for 79,700
enlisted men, the same as during the
present year, hut for; 13,600 enlisted
men of the Marine Corps, reduction
of 1,743 men from this year.
The President proposed large reduc-
tions in the appropriations made Tor
the public building program, as COM
pared to the appropriations for the
fiscal year 1882 and for other public
works. holding that the Governments
program is well in advance Of the
country's immediate needs. He said
that the authorization of large pro-
grams of self-liquidating works, to be
financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, would provide aid to the
unemployed on an even larger scale
than the public works program, with
out burden upon the taxpayers.
The high points of the Presidents
message on the budget follow in detail: