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Show -1 it :r, Study Shovs That Federal Government !i Controls 64 of All Tax Expenditures Federal, state, and local units across the nation spent ( nearly $225 billion during the li)(')G fiscal year, according to !'" an analysis just completed by '" Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization. ,,, Total government spending ; last year was equal to $1,153 .. for every man woman, and "" child In the United States. Thus, government spending cost the average family of four persons more than $4, GOO in fiscal 196G. Total government! t. expenditures during that year were equal to about 32.9'r of be equal to GKr and slate and local spending of the total. Foundation analysts observe that prior to World War II most government spending in 1 the U.S. was by state and local units. In 1910, for example, approximately ap-proximately 55',i of the total direct expenditures through-, j out the nation was by state I and local governments with the Federal Government accounting ac-counting for about 45", of the total. In 1927 the ratio was 10'r state and local compared With 30'f Federal I the gross national product and ''t 41.8'I of total personal income of all Individuals last year. t. The Utah Foundation study points out that government 4 spending throughout the Un-'', Un-'', ited States has multiplied a-bout a-bout eleven times since 1940 and slightly more than three " times since 1950. Of the $225 billion In total (' government expenditures dur-ing dur-ing the 1966 fiscal year, $130 "'y billion, or 587r, was spent di-i di-i rectly by the Federal Govern-ment Govern-ment and $95 billion, or 42'r , was expended by state and lo-cal lo-cal units. The report notes, ;,-). however, that approximately $13 billion of the state and " S" local expenditure total con-' con-' sists of financial aid received from the Federal Government. If government spending is treated in terms of the level 1L of government which origin-' origin-' ally raised the money, then Federal expenditures would National defense and international inter-national relations (including space research) is the most expensive governmental activity ac-tivity accounting for 35.2 of all general government expenditures ex-penditures last year. Other major areas of government spending include education -18.4, highways - 6.87r , inter-I inter-I est on the general debt - 6.57, I natural resources . 5.47, health and hospitals 4.47, and public welfare - 3.77. Largest revenue producer for all governmental units in I the nation, according to the Foundation, is the individual income tax. It produced 31.97; of the general purpose revenue collected by all levels of government gov-ernment in 19G6. Other important import-ant revenue sources to Federal, Feder-al, state, and local units in- ; elude sales and excise taxes ' 17.97, corporation income tax- 17.07, and the property tax - i i3.i7. |