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Show or 183, from $192 to $545 million. mil-lion. State capital outlay spending since 1961 has gone up $24 million, mil-lion, or 171. Excluding highway high-way spending, in 1961 that total to-tal was $14 million in 1971 it was $38 million. Since 1961, the state has spent $258 million on capital outlay excluding highway construction. con-struction. This amounts to almost al-most $23 million per year. Education spending since 1961 has jumped $199 million, cr or 220, from $87 to $286 million. mil-lion. Enrollments at all levels are now dropping. Welfare spending since 1961 has gone up $44 million, or 220, from $20 to $64 million. State highway spending since 1961 has been boosted $48 million, mil-lion, or 91, from $53 to $101 million. State payrolls since 1961 have shot up $9.7 million, or 243, from $4 million to $13.7 mil lion per month. Politicians tell us there is no. problem of future built-in tax increases if one-time windfall revenues are- used for capiial outlay type projects like new office buildings and parks. We must remember that once buildings buil-dings are constructed it takes, tax dollars to heat, staff, and maintain them. Some authorities authori-ties claim that 20 of the original orig-inal construction costs are re fleeted in increased annual op erating costs. There is nothing sacred about Federal revenue-sharing that says it cannot be used for tax relief. This was the intent of the President when he introduced intro-duced the legislation. This was the intent of the Congress when it passed the legislation. Surpluses do not belong to the bureaucrats and spenders. They belong to taxpayers from whose peychecks they were- taken. ta-ken. Therefore taxpayers should be the ones to determine how this money should b;? used. Th weeks ahead will determine who is to win the war of the surpluses the organized and effective spenders, or the hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of taxpayer". Will the taxpayer be thrown crumbs, or will he get the tens of millions of dollars of tax cuts he deserves? All will depend de-pend on whether the taxpayer takes the time to call and tell his legislator how he feels. Legislature Eyes $40 Million Surplus The legistlature will have be-twppn be-twppn $40 and S50 million in " The legistlature will have between be-tween $40 and $50 million in one-time windfall surpluses available for the 1973-74 fiscal year. Part of this money will come from increases in tax collections col-lections in the current year. Part is from 1972-73 Federal revenue-sharing that will not be available in future years. The balance is from unexpected unexpect-ed corporation income tax collections. col-lections. The big problem facing the legislature is what to do with all of this ' extra mney. They must decide whether it should go to fund higher levels of spending, or whether it should be returned to the taxpayers in some form of tax cut. This will not be an easy decision. Every state agency is building up a case to justify the need for more money. By the time the session convenes, these funds will have been spent ten times over. To assist the lawmakers in determining whether to cut taxes, or increase spending, wa present the following information. informa-tion. All data shown is from the U. S. Census report, "State Government Finances." Total stale taxes since 1961 have shot up $167 million, or 164, from $102 to $269 million. mil-lion. State sales taxes since 1961 have jumped $72 million, or 248, from $29 to $101 million. State individual income taxes since 1961 have gone up $47 million, or 313, from $15 to $62 million. State corporation income taxes tax-es since 1961 have shot up $5 million, or 83, from $6 to $11 million. State motor fuel taxes since J961 have increased $20 million, or 95, from $21 to $41 million. mil-lion. State population since 1961 1961 has increased 17, cr 163,000. State total spending since 1961 has increased $353 million, |