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Show Where Your Taxes Go How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money - in Conducting Your Business By EDWARD G. LO WRY i 1 iw WiMniton ClowUpi." "Csnki nd Plnncil Syttenn," etc, Cinrl). I feuwaludBeomleArtlcleto Leading Periodical! snei a W,it , ViS I political ano Ahorily , tb National Government's Duiincu Methodi AW0,"M 1 " Copyright, Wei1 era Newspaper Union ' XIV. THIS WAS YOUR MONEY Consider for u moment, If you will, somo further figures. This Is your money 1 am talking about. For eveiy fiscal jear from 1SC0 to 1803, Inclusive, there was u surplus of receipts over expenditures. During-this During-this period of 28 jeors the surplus of receipts oer expenditures totaled $1.-UiiO.'JOS.OUMl. $1.-UiiO.'JOS.OUMl. For the fiscal years 1801 to 1800, In-cluihe, In-cluihe, the expenditures exceeded the receipts In the aggregate of $283,022,-001.14. $283,022,-001.14. For Ihe ilscal iears 1000 to 100, Inclusive, the surplus of receipts over expenditures aggregated $310,-310,10501. $310,-310,10501. For 1005 the expenditures exceeded the receipts by $78,770,-022.30. $78,770,-022.30. For the jenrs 1010 to 1014, Inclusive, Inclus-ive, tho receipts exceeded the expendl-turea expendl-turea by $140,024,40-1.27. For 1015 the expenditures exceeded the receipts by $:t3.4S8,031.53. l-'or 1010 tho receipts re-ceipts exceeded the expenditures by $55,171,r.53.r.O, nnd for 1017 there wns a deficit of $20,721,804.73. From 1800 to 1017, Inclusive, the receipts re-ceipts exceeded the expenditures for ench year with the exception of 1801, 1805. 1800, 1807, 1803, 1800, 1005, 1008, 1000, 1015 nnd 1017. The total amount by which the expenditures exceeded the receipts for these 11 years Just named. Is $443,700,744.70. For the 52 fiscal years, 1800 to 1017, Inclusive, tho receipts exceeded the expenditures In 41 years, the total of such excess (or that period being $2,501,453,184.10. For tho fiscal years 1800 to 1010, the revenues were raised through an Indirect In-direct 8 stem of taxation. Beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1010, the receipts from direct methods of tuxntlon have usually grown each fiscal year, as will be seen by the following fol-lowing table: ttl&-Corpornllon tax t 20,931,780 97 lBH-Corporutlon tax J3,616,T5 59 1912-Corporatlon tax M.M.303.73 lllS-CorporaUon tax 35,000,299.(4 1914 Corporation excise tax, 10,(71,077.22 9I( Corporation Incomo tax 32,4,CG7 1914-Indlvldual Income tax.. 28,:S3,U4.K 191S Emergency revenue 12,069.126.23 1915-Corporatlon Income tax 0,ir,C9C.T7 ll-Indlvldual Income tax.. 41.04&.1G2.09 1918 Emergency revenue 81,278,30111 ms Corporation Income tax K.903.657.M 1918 Individual Income tax.. (7,943.(94.(3 1917 Emergency revenue 95,297,CU.S8 1917-Corporatlon Income tax 179,B72,(S7.8( 1917-Indlvldual Income tax.. 390,106.310,10 1918 Income and excess prof-Its prof-Its tan I.S33,909,S94.2I 1919 Income and excess prof-Its prof-Its tax ... 2.5M,OM,702.70 Th number of corporations mak ing incomo tux returns MmvMng ,,, 1 nblo Income, aggregated r2,-t03 In I 1 calendar year 1000, and thnt nil. Increased to 232,070 for tl,0 ,"" I year 1017. The number of n(jU(In' 1 making personul income tax reinl a Bggicgnted 357.003 for the raiei..i 3 year 1013, nn'd thnt number nm2. T to 3,472,800 for the culcmliir ear ion 4 For the (Tscnl year 11)0!) tl,c (ll1 ordinary receipts aggregated $C03i 489.81, of Which SW0 71110303 2 f from customs dutlbt, $-' 111,212041a ' cumo from Intemul ioumim iTnd ii! 1 bnlnnco wns received from the sale u I public lands nnd other mibcellaneou 1 Items; whereas, for the tSCa it.. I ending June 30, 1010, the total I celpts from customs amounted to $l8i 1 457,807.30, while the Internal reeimt including Income taxes mid coriwrj 4 tlon nnd execs profits tuxes, amount,, i to $3,830,050,012.05. 1 So you will seo thnt until 1910 ut money you paid toward the guW J of the government was slipped awa- J from you so enslly that jou hardh J know unythlng about it You did do 1 know that you were paj lug taxei f 1 the national government j Indirect taxntlon Is tho most ti i ductlve form of raising public ret pnue. You never emtio In contact will ' tr"t federal government except wlienjm bought a postage stump. Hut now joi know It every time you buy a drink ) a sodd fountain, or a buttle of uedl J cine, or sand a telegram, or male i f long-distance telephone call, or per form any one of a score of other nor 1 mnl activities of dally life. Some i thing must be put In the kitty tor tin ' government. Its .annual rakeoff nm j Into the billions. You pay It and th government spends It. j But all thnt part of the party b about over now. The ojsters ban j been eaten and put In the bill. Tie; must bo paid for. It Is perfectly clei- ' that in the future by far the greata ' part of the revenue required for con ducting the public business must conn ! from direct taxes. It Is also cleat : thut the ordinary expenses for run nlng the government will In futun probably exceed four billion dollars i " year. That Is a lot of money to take ' out of your pockets, nnd mine. Hadn'l i we better see what Is done vtlth It, sol n whether we can save any of It? Coa gress; which Is very far-sighted, an . able, when Its own skin Is concerned, j to distinguish a hawk from a hanl saw at a very great distance, Is to j ginning to take notlc f |