Show Welfare Official Proposes oses Sales Tax to Pay Benefits Gen General ral Boost In U. U US U.S. S. S Aid To Poor Urged j Expansion of ot federal aid to cover all classes of needy persons listed isted on the public welfare program program program pro pro- gram and increase of benefits under the social security old age and survivors' survivors insurance act botho both to o be financed by a federal sales tax ax were proposed Wednesday by byJ J J. J Parley White member of Utah state welfare commission Sales taxes viewed by Mr White a at as probably the most universal l land and easiest to collect up to 10 would have to be levied but the benefits from this tax could become become become be be- come universal under a retirement plan patterned after the old age and survivors' survivors insurance and broadened to cover all aU persons Benefits of the old age and survivors survivors survivors sur sur- insurance are now woefully woefully woe woe- fully inadequate said Mr White eMy e. e My contention is that the federal federal federal fed fed- eral government should participate participate participate pate in the cost of care within fixed limits for all qualified needy persons not confined in institutions institutions institutions added the veteran relief relic commissioner State funds are augmented now now by federal funds only in the case of recipients of old age assistance aid to dependent dependent dependent dent children and assistance to the blind while all money y received by persons on gener general l assistance persons classed as and is furnished by bythe bythe bythe the state Welfare assistance should be geared to fo cost of living and adjusted adjusted adjusted ad ad- twice a year to o within 2 of index rises and declines States with residential restrictions of longer than one year should not share in federal grants said Mr White The recommend recommendations have been forwarded to Denver where regional offices of Federal Social Security division are located |