Show Four States Out of Debt as as' it may may seem in these days 1 I of ot heavy public indebtedness four states are S completely free of Florida debt Florida Ohio Wisconsin Wiscon Wiscon- sin and Nebraska They are free because their constitutions prohibit public debt beyond a small i. i figure t i Nebraska for instance reports a surplus of 1 in her treasury and boasts that tha she she I has neither a state income tax nor a sales tax tay yet she has borne her share of the relief burden bur burden bur bur- den paid for a new capitol and improved her I schools r It should be said of course that relief is r I borne largely by the municipalities in this state But granting even this thi exception the point re remains remains remains re- re can get re re- re mains that a pay yo you pay go policy Fortunately Nebraska and her three free debt debt sister states were provided with constitutional constitutional constitutional setups to make this sort of sound economics eco ceo co- co possible from the first But certainly it should not be too late for other states and muni- muni benefit by their example |