| Show Tax Day Dy We should put a big mark on our calendar for April 15 That Thatis is when we must dig deep to tol l pay a the final installment on some 12 42 12 billion of or 1959 per per- federal and state income taxes Along with this 24 2 bl billion biN bil lion mote more mOl e will bo be taken as corporate corporate cor income 3 tax payments This total of 63 66 billion is a lot lotof lotof of oC taxes in any language and this constitutes only half haiL the taxes wo we pay in a year carThe car The date is important for another mother reason For if all aU the income of all aU the people from January 1st to April 15 15 wa was siphoned into public treasuries it would barely pay the tax bill for the year Wo may well then I designate April 15 ns as Tax Freedom Free Free- dons dom Da Day We would then startIng starting starting start start- ing with empty pockets be free freo freeto to use the remaining 71 8 pet per percent cent of the income we earned for all aU other obligations and uses uses' as seems us good Tax Freedom Day flay is all aU too loo late coming This is what has happened In the nine years ealS from 1950 to 1959 the total tax load in the United States Stales federal state and local ocal has jumped from million to million mil lion to findings of Tax Foundation Inc of oC N N. Y This Tins is million or 85 percent For 1959 the thc federal federa take was million while I the state and local burden was I million All told the tax bill amounted to percent of or orthe the total national product of ot million In the five livo years since 1954 oven even our taxes have been upped million or 43 13 per cent Wo We hove have been inclined to blame the tho fed federal ral government for our tax ills JUs but much of oC our trouble is on the thc stale state and lac local level ol These taxes have jumped from rom million in 1954 to million in 1959 or 52 J percent More increases arc are in the thc offing These taxes have Increased more rapidly even than Ulan the federal Nor is this all In Hi the tta ten years cars from 1950 to 1960 federal d debt bt has jumped from billion bil bh lion to 2 O billion or 33 billion In the eight t years ears 1950 to 1958 slate and local debt increased from from million to million or million according ac cording to Tax Foundation Inc of N. N Y This is percent addition This money has lias also been Jeen spent and will have to be repaid in the future The Census Bureau Dureau reveals that public civilian employment has inci increased eased to by October 1959 This is an increase increase increase in in- crease of or 40 10 percent percent percent per per- cent above the 1950 average of At present one out of eight persons employed in the nation Is on the tho public payrolls pay pay- rolls The report states that from 1958 to 19 1959 9 the increase totaled This increase is largely on the state t an and local I level It looks as if JC some house housecleaning housecleaning housecleaning cleaning is needed right here at home Tho great illusion of our times limes is that if it we get un any or e cr everything thing from Washington it itis itis itis is free that it costs us noth ing The contrary is true That which we receive via ViR Washing Washington ton is most costly for admInistrative administrative administrative and supervisory costs arc nrc high That is not all All too loo often oCten unwarranted and unnecessary unnecessary un necessary services costing costine billions bil billions lions are furnished There is a alot alot alot lot of fat and inefficiency which we wo cannot afford in these tr try ing lag and perilous times This year Utah taxpayers will pay over in taxes taxes- t fC state and local This includes those visible and those hidden Taxes will take nearly third one of all aB our income That is a mighty serious condi condi- tion Th The federal take is nearl nearly two thirds of or the total or around There are arc many asking for more and more federal aid for this or that Utah Board of or Examiners denounced denounced de de- de- de federal grants as a It Trojan Horse used to overthrow tho the sovereignty of states in a n meeting held Mar 22 The issue calling forth the statement was wasa a proposed grant of for fm a year five program for research re ro search and treatment in the care of the aged Opinions expressed expressed ex ex- pressed called for further study of or the proposition anyway We need to reverse the trend we we cant can't get something for Cor nothing were s ions made |
