Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-03 | Page 4 | Not Alone Federal

NOT ALONE FEDERAL SO CO go much publicity has been given to the LJ current attempts to reduce the federal budget that the spending proclivities of city county and state governments tend to get overlooked It has been reliably estimated that the total to total to- to tal tat sum collected in taxes in the each year is between twelve and fourteen billion dollars Of this only a little more than four b billions go to Uncle Sam The rest Is taken by local and state governments Relief from the heavy tax burden then l Is not chiefly a matter of ot reducing federal expenditures Unless city county and state officials can be induced to slash their budgets very materially we shall continue to be overtaxed over over- taxed taxed taxed-no no matter what the government at Washington W-ashington does 5 I f