| Show where your taxes go how uncle sam spend spends you youl money moncy in conduct ing buur A butir business by EDWARD 0 lawry Ww hirao cl chup ch up UPS 4 5 byr f W contributor IN if ml artzt M to t L die fid d wr W IW 9 f alt ori H r ur the auml G I 1 bulb san lot y I 1 at a b p W UI III WARS EAT UP U THI TAXES joallen I 1 mit lott out to 0 d 11 I 1 I 1 YU where here tho ou p I 1 y as lethell let lell tax bf L es I 1 il d J it 11 t hate haie far to lok it goes for stir last taft pie tit mul and I 1 net list ear it little in oi ir lr W fitt of the lucona went hii u in lit th rel ort of tile ali acre decre tury fury of tie ti e eul sul to con col arct gr L s I 1 11 ault lu D lT lid li D hf lie nm amark ark an analyst i a of go ariment cecill pe cill ures for ha the bilal 1 ear ar 1920 on tie tl lal ot dall dally y treasury statement Klatt ment develop develops the tr ikin k n a act fact that eif fl the th net ordinary d a burem of 0 34 loo 00 about W N irr per cent condiles con conal diled ted ut tit expenditures under the ih bonds purchase of obi ration of for eign elan governments ow ow war department 1 til M navy department US oco board alo federal control I 1 0 r kioa ate tem and p payment a ments to the railroad rah roade under the transportation act 1 1037 W lB tret on an the public debt I 1 M ODD M ro re one 13 1 ae wo V ar alik insurance In aurance in ow IHK wo purchase Pur chaia of federal farm loan bond bonds mew 30 wo dottl tot is f ns all the expenditures entering into this total and a large hare of the expenditures on arlous minor accounts represent rep burden burdens dl oll erectly traceable to the war to pant past are ar or to preparedness prepared nee for or future wart ar them these figures serve to indie the direction which bleb sincere efforts to reduce the cost of the government mutt must tale take aln I 1 found mr ur gilbert the under secretary of the treasury ashing abro has ha ben been much idle talk wk to the effect the the excessive coit cost of torn govern benj in ea to inefficiency and lanc in the executive departments depart menta A out doubt there re has been ben waste and inefficiency in the various vertou government overn ment de do and and much can be b accomplished and baa has already been accomplished by the introduction of efficient and ec economie onole methodi methods of ad and an d the she elimination of du and work it might well be possible to auve as 0 uch a its VA M ouo buo or uto OUO OW 10 ay y careful and a e I 1 entitle reorganization of 0 tie it e governments i bu bluie T te h figures f show that over SO per cent t or f the total annual inua 1 ape expenditure R on t urea 0 t the government ar are related to war out of total expend expenditures ture during 10 1920 of about abw ekx motoo about D 4 4 bi lioa rep arsel led expenditures directly dir aly traceable trace abi to the war ar t to pa pait at war for to prepared ross for autu future re clars ar of thil this about went tor for the army and navy over I oia X for the shipping board ever over tl 1 for the railroads another tl 11 for interest on the public debt debts ajmo ais 1 for purchase of obelea abt 1 71 1101 lor at orelen on an account aunt of their wf wat expenditures and the remain tir lor pen war risa allotments allot and items related to war an 01 eiletta ol eilt yaa tta wt of the of the brat first six ix lonba of ahe fiscal year 1921 gives simme th the aleo also how show that tle total to dott I 1 of run hat may be t ta tta proper that la to to aby the various government covern ment board boards and commissions and the I 1 it aftab have not much exceeded tSOO even in the ab sob norin war bears eara I 1 ought details de talla if more than 00 per cent qt the entire oll of I 1 1020 went vat for pa past and prospective pro wan warm how much had we ae been pend spend ing to keep he the world orld fafe mate for demo democracy e fire all familiar with the a tift the best beat ully ay to prevent war ar Is I 1 if be prepared tor for war var I 1 bought thought I 1 might flat out whether vit lether that an as true I 1 wrt at back into the rec rd anti 1 found that year by year brors to ISIO 1019 inclusive the treasury department had kept an account of the actual not appropriations ralpl you but actual noney money expended of the fsr depart luent the navy department and for pension aheu I 1 got all the ligure ft before me I 1 coulden t add them up in the tile bureau of internal revenue they loaned me nie a machine and an operator and eo so I 1 know and can tell on that from ISM to and through 1010 1011 the war aar department actually d a buried 05 in the same period the navy aut 3 2 and pensioner pensioners of pa pit pat t war ware g t that la Is a thun alering total of 29 OIK TO TW ml 19 to fir r the army and anti navy alone leaving out of aci account Lount the 5 09 fur fr pension pensions I 1 mill aill let ion ou derade le clile whether any part of the fuenty little billini dollar dollars pent spent for preparedness prepared neM and nod for war at preen presented ted our going to war ar or found us prel pre aft 1 bahen lahen hen we me went vent to war ar the three items I 1 have enumerated are only ribs of the skeleton elfton of the cost of war aar preparation and I 1 have not been able to excavate any other detail figures bilut it I 1 ii i known that the war ar cf of coet cost about WO the cost of tue tile mexican war la Is esti esil mated to have been 63 3 SI the total cost of he the civil war tak ink ing the period from june SO 30 1 to june 30 ISCA may trial be floured closely at 3 M OW the treasury trea tury in the winter of la lit a report wit sent to con gress U V rough tough the secretary that the coet cost of the world war to ua us to that date had been excle elve give of our loans loan to the allies and other foreign nations so yov you pee ee the cot of wars I 1 in gt go ing trig up no matter how much money meaty w ot spend by way ay of preparation |
