Show utah drained by fe federal deral taxes says banker utahna hopeful of seeing their tax bills lowered during the next year were warned to day by an ogden member of the government economy adm committee national association of manufacturer manufacturers that they face a fight to break the federal government governments ern ment ments heavy drain on available tax dollars according to george S eccles president first security corporation ogden a sarv survey y just released by the economic research council of the national association ot of manufacturers shows that over three fourths of tax dollars or 77 per cent go to support the federal government leaving less than a quarter or 23 per cent for all the needs of state and local governments ern ments calling on all citizens to loin join a bring government back home movement he said amany many local governments in various states are in serious financial tondi condition tIon without adequate funds to provide badly needed schools hospitals police or fire protection yet this survey shows that of the million in taxes taken out of utah only about 14 million was returned in the form of grants dnald in ald for economic and social welfare no wonder twenty se seven ven states up in the red last year squeezed between rising costs and lower tax revenues states are am being forced to accept handouts from the federal government to carry on purely local activities carff bu bui taxpayers often overlook the fact that this so called generosity by the federal government Is done with money taxed from them in the first place eccles added lie said all the survey points out there are now 48 dil different programs through which the federal government doles out money to the states federal hand cuts outs are usually accompanied by government restrictions and supervision ot of the use of that money thus states and cities lose the rag right U to administer their affairs as they 04 fee tit fit he charged but mut this is not the wont worst not only an are our state and local government governments uttering suffering from rom loss ol 01 revenue but we as individuals are losing the financial strength or freedom docto ta plan our own futures while federal bureaucracy imposes reg regimentation en tation in the guise of controlling the inflation it causes by wasteful spending and extravagance eccles ald said the survey recommends as solutions to this problem ae the placing of a fir firm ceiling on the national debt strict economy in all federal spending return to local communities ol 01 their responsibility responsibility tor for local activities along w with t th adea adequate aate tax resources to finance them and the limiting of federal re to activities truly national in character |