The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-04-06
Along the Potomac
to Washington
BY j. Glenn Beall
Congressman Sixth District

Recently for my newsletter | had
a national research organization as
certain what effect the huge national
debt and the proposed spending
budget for fiscal year 1851 would
have on the Taxpayers of the Sixth
Congressional District of Maryland.
1t was learned at that time, basing
this charge on estimated population
figures as of January /, l949, that
the Sixth Congressional District of
Maryland's share Of the national debt
was $6S5353. 400. Their share of the
proposed 1851 budget was $i10,255,-
$50.
Now this same national research
organization has given me further in
formation on request to ascertain
Federal Grants in Aid for the Sixth
District Federal Grants in Aid is
the amount of money the Federal
Government returns to the District
in the form Of Old Age Assistance,
Federal roads, Social Security, I'm
employment Compensation, and other
Federal assistance to the states. In
other words, the Federal Government
acts as a broker in returning your
tax money to you. And the brokerage
fee is enormous.
1t is not possible to trace down all
Federal Grants in Aid for the Sixth
Congressional District alone but it is
estimated that it receives about one
third of the total state aid which
amounts to $3,lG3,0OO On that basis
the Sixth District received about one
million dollars This figure includes
Old Age Assistance, Assistance to
the Needy Blind, the Agricultural
Experiment Station and A. and NJ.
Colleges. Information on grants for
unemployment compensation and
highways is not current.
In other words, the Sixth District
has a deb, Of $6S5,352. 400 of the ma
tional debt ON its shoulders and its
share of the proposed spending bud
get is $1l0,255,Sg0, all paid out of
your taxes and in return you are re-
ccVing back approximately one mil
lion dollars.
For a comparison, let us look at
what Cook County, Illinois, is receiv-
ing. Cook County is strongly Demo
cratic and Chicago, where the Presi-
dent, his Cabinet and others of his
Administration are going to hold a
big rally in May, is receiving $72,-
$4,000 in Federal Grants in Aid. 1t
is estimated that Cook County's
share is roughly 50 percent of the
State of Illinois.
Incidentally. the Federal Budget is
2il pages larger than the largest
mail-ordcr company's catalogue. 1t
contains 1913 pages and each page
contains more than 26 million dollars
of expenditures. If even million dol
lars of the budget could be checked
and approved each hour by one per
son working a 40 hour week, so
weeks out of the year, it would take
him u years, months and 20 days
Speaking Of taxes, Charles Oil
phant, Chief Counsel Of the Internal
Revenue Department, gave a ruling
the other day that the $419,35O
differentiation Day dinner held in
Washington was exempt from paying
the 20 percent tax. In his 1000 word
ruling, Mr.. Oliphant stated that the
entertainment at the rally was Incl
dental to the affair itself since it only
brought together 500 contributors,
including high public officials to hear
IAN important address" by the Presi-
dent and other speeches. Representa-
tive Reed, New York, ranking Re
publican member Of the House Ways
and Means Committee stated an
view Of the position of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue that the 81 paid to