Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-01 | Page 25 | The Budget in a Nutshell

I The Budget in a l Nutshell zell T THE H indications arc are that Congress will get into another an nn- another other big bin tangle Ie over ocr the bu budget get b bills of which there are arc more than than one but with the same object in in view in in each ench It is argue argued in support of or the Good plan that the President as ns the time nations nation's chief executive should be held responsible for its husin business ss management that he alone controls all cabinet officers that lint he lie has an impartial complete view of their work that if ir t the e secretary of tho the treasury prepared the thc bud budget eL he would be he in a n superior position to other cabinet officers which would woul result in friction iridion in the cabinet In support of the McCormick plan it is urged that the secretary of the treasury being the nations nation's 6 chief fiscal officer responsible for raising rc revenue should have a I voice in determining expenditures that creating a a. bureau of the lie budget in the thc Presidents President's ent's office would only tend to lo multiply boar boards s and bureaus fostering a further division of responsibility that is now the bane of oi our government g So far as the people arc rc concerned they are anxious I lo to I have hn a national budget an and arc not particularly interested in interested in- in in in the discussion on as ns to who shall be bc held responsible responsible sible for its preparation on The Thc government o is ib now spending spending spend spend- ing over ocr a year It gets that money from i ito t o main sources Revenue from custom duties un and taxes tuxes I In the fiscal year July hily lOIS 1918 to July 1910 1019 the custom I duties amounted to lt 1 lh 30 and taxes to SS O. Taxes come conic from individuals corporations un and and affect practically every article we wc use Everybody E is is personally an and directly interest interest- interested ed cd in keeping down own time thc tax rate That can be done one only b by bavin iu having the government spend less money Nobody can spen spend le leis s s money until he knows s what he is pending and w where ere the monc money goes The llIe first thill thing thine to lo do therefore is to install n a s system tem under which the time government go cnn can k know mow hat it has Ims to lo spend and where and ancl how the monc money is to ho bo spent That means making inking somebody responsible for lor t the be preparation of a n financial plan of t the c government o but hut as to Who ho does eloes it so o long longus longas us Uj it is is properly done does cloes not seem to be bc of such para pam paramount mount importance as to delay the installation of the tem