The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-11
MICHIGAN PAYS
TAXES FOR OTHER.
STATES HELP


the Chamber Of Commerce Of Mich
gan:
Did you ever stop TO think where all
the billions Of dollars the state and
nation are spending ON government
projects comes from? Well, you, Mr..
and Mrs. Taxpayer, are the ones that
| are paying the bill. The only source OF
revenue the Cover nmem has is what it
ftakes away from You taxpayers, in
this or that form. You may not own
any property, but you pay your share
just the same.
In this connection il Is interesting TO
note just how our own state of Michi-
gan ranks in the amount donated 10
the federal government, as compared
10 many other states. You hear people
| Boosting Of what a nice chunk of mon
~ their town has received from Uncle
Sam with which 10 build this o. that
building or park. Well, it all looks nice
until we stop 70 think minute. Who
is Uncle Sam anyway? what is govern
ment? Well, the people are supposed to
be the government III these United
| States. So any money spent for this
project or that, comes from you, the
taxpayer. Don't lull yourself into the
belief that someone else is paying for
I'll the nice things the u. s. govern
ment is doing for you Did you ever
stop To think that perhaps. certain pol
iticians were placing these vast sums
of money in sections Of the country
where votes were most needed? Think
that over.
In 1887 Michigan taxpayers Raid to
the Federal government almost go
million dollars and only received for
various projects about One-fOurth OF
that amount, while Alabama, for in
stance, only paid Uncle Sam about
1912 million bat got back over Gil mil
| Lion, or about six times as much as
paid In. Here are Il few comparisons
Arizona paid $3,177,244.44 and re-
ceived $2S, 1O1 1889. Idaho paid 3d.
U6.0SS.77 and received S29,667 ,Ou1 IS
Iowa paid $1S.9S1, 523.3S and received
$I3, 4S9. 1870 Minnesota got $1O2, 273,-
G95.71 by paying So, 663, 151 80; Miss
iS;ippi, $50 ,32S,516.19 by paying 81
4j,J12.G.
And SO ON down the line.
Michigan is one of fifteen states that
pays the federal government more
| than IL receives. Your tax money is
sent into other states for various pur-
poses. There is one thing that ii is
we'll TO remember, and that is that 80
cents uf every dollar spent in this vast
spending program" is borrowed mon
ey and must be paid back some day.
and you will have to pay your share.
And as Michigan is one Of the big pay
ing states IL is easy TO see that we will
be paying for the other fellows new
buildings and parks and other vote
getting projects for years to come.
All this reckless spending has in
creased our debt to q figure that the
human mind cannot grasp, and recOy-
cry is not even lust around the cor
| her" We are farther from recovery
than we ever were, and the sad part
Of it all Is you taxpayers still have the
bill to pay.
Michigan taxpayers paid total of
| 545 million dollars in local, state and
national taxes for the year ending
June 30. 1889. This is millions more
than we were made to pay in any one
year and still the state government
ran behind about 80 million dollars.
The trouble Is the people we elect TO
public Office usually have had no bust
ness experience. They seem TO know
nothing about making money, all they
seem TO be fitted for Is spending mon
ey. Yet we place them in charge Of
| the biggest business on EARTH the gov
ernment Ut the United States. No won
der we are staggering under national
debt that win take our children and
grandchildren hah century TO pay, If
they are ever able to do so.
For over one hundred years our
country prospered and grew into the
greatest nation ON earth. Our system
| of government WAS the envy Of all the
DC ople uf the world, which is proven
by the great hOards Of people who
| ftOcked 10 our shores, here 10 find lib
critics and opportunities not to be
| found in any other country. And we
continued to live happily and make
progress until some years ago, pOliti-
clans discovered or claimed TO have
discovered that our system of govern
meDt was wrong and needed changing.
| so they started TO reform things, but
can you name single sO-called reform
| that has been forced upon us by poll
ticians In the last 30 years that has
worked TO our advantage!
The trouble seems To have started
about the time the sO-called ''erogres-
sive" politician appeared on the pOliti-
cal horizon. A progressive politician is
fellow who will promise anything
and everything just TO get himself ell
ected to public office, and liberal
| is a public official who is liberal with
your tax dollar. It's not his money, SO
| why worry That part Is up TO you.
You are the one that has to dig up the
| taxes.
1t Is. high time that we insist on the
good Old-fashioned American system
| of government. That the middle class
rise UP and demand its rights from
our elected representatives, cut out all
unneeded tax-spending agencies, that
do nothing but create new political
jobs for the faithful, insist on ecOno-
my i'm state and national government
In short. make government practice only
what the people generally have been
obliged to practice for several years in
| order to eat.
There cannot be buying power suf-
ficient to keep business moving when
the people are obliged to pay $50 Of
their earnings in taxes. Fact Is over
taxation IL more to blame for unem-