Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-03-02 | Page 4 | A Swell Idea

f t t. t A Swell Idea lj- lj DEADLINES proclaim Senate Approves f I trove Move to Reduce Useless Bureaus Senators inay thay be sure the constituents will clap hands i the e job is is' well vell done T The e story goes on to 5 s 's say y that a search will ill be begun for Ol a constructive constructive tive iye plan for the reorganization of the whole government This swe swell l idea belongs to Senator Byrd Virginias Virginia's caustic critic of the new deal th though jh a Democrat to 10 the Ithe death The Old Dominions Dominion's Do Do- S. S minions minion's statesman believes a saving running into many aP 1 hundreds 1 of pio millions J be possible rJ Simplification efficiency and economy will be bethe bethe bethe the objectives Senator Byrd must have been reading late census bureau statistics about taxes The average average average aver aver- age man n knows what he pays in direct taxes and may be able to figure out the amount he pays for special excises such as tobacco taxes gasoline taxes and some others What he doesn't know is that the average tax bill for each of the families in the United States is a year So many items are arc concealed lcd in prices that they do not s strike home The census bureaus bureau's latest figures give 11 as the total government nt revenues in inthe inthe inthe the country The federal governments government's share is around for the states for counties to cities towns villages and other local units The average direct tax bill is per family The indirect taxes and other forms of revenue make up the remaining On the basis of ot these late figures a tax statistician finds that 25 cents out of each d dollar dol dollar dol- dol l- l lar lax of income goes to support government The trouble Senator Byrds Byrd's committee is likely to run into is that after it has submitted recommendations statesmen will think of ot patronage patronage patronage pat pat- first and economy last That is what Utah's famous c committee of nine found out after completing a fine job of research into state costs