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Show National Defense and Education Lead Heavy Costs to Taxpayers al defense and international relations re-lations (including space research) re-search) totaled $87.9 billion, or 32Ti, of all expenditures for general purposes. This percentage percen-tage is down somewhat from the Viet-Nam War peak years of 1967-68 when defesne and related relat-ed activities accounted for 37.5 of all general government govern-ment expenditures. Education is the second costliest cost-liest function of government, according to the Foundation report. re-port. In 1969-70 it accounted for total expenditures of $55.8 billion, which was equal to 20.3 of all general government expenditures. ex-penditures. By comparison, educational spending amounted amount-ed to 15.1 of general expenditures expend-itures in 1960 and 17.1 in 1964-65. 1964-65. Income taxes (both individual and corporate) provide more than one-half of all tax revenue received by governmental units in the U.S. The Foundation study notes that at one time, the property prop-erty tax was the leading tax source in the U.S. and supplied more than half of all tax revenues. rev-enues. Last year, the property tax raised only about one-eighth of all tax revenue in the nation. In addition to the huge increase in-crease in government spending and taxes during the past two decades, the Foundation study also points out that the period has seen a large growth in the public debt. This increase in indebedness has occurred not only at the Federal level, but also at the state and local levels. At the close of the 1969-70 fiscal year, the outstandingdebt of all governmental units in the UJS. (Federal, state, and local) amounted to $514 billion. This compares with total indebtedness indebted-ness of $356 billion in 1960 and $281 billion in 1950. Total expenditures for all governmental units across the nation last year were equal to $1,638 per capita. Thus governmental gov-ernmental operations cost the average family of four persons approximately $6,550 in fiscal 1970. These facts were brought out in an analysis of government finance in the United States during 1970 prepared by Utah Foundation, the private tax research re-search organization. According to the Foundation study, government units through out the United States (Federal, state and local) spent $275 billion bil-lion last year for general purposes, pur-poses, In addition to these general purpose expenditures, another $58 billion was expended ex-pended for social security and medicare, unemployment ben-efits, ben-efits, railroad retirement, government gov-ernment employee retirement benefits, and other items financed fin-anced from special insurance trust funds. Altogether, total spending by all governmental units in the U.S. last year amounted to$333 billion. This was equal to about 34) of the gross national product in 1970. Approximately $185 billion, or 56, of total government spending last year involved direct expenditures by theFed-eral theFed-eral Government and $148 bil-tion, bil-tion, or 44 consisted of amounts expended by state and local units. Part of the state and local spending total, however, how-ever, was made up of aid received re-ceived from the Federal Government. Gov-ernment. When government spending is considered in terms of the level of government which originally raised the money, total Federal spending would equal $208 billion, or 63 of the expenditure total, and the state and local share would equal $125 billion, of 37 of the total amount expended. Foundation analysts note that national defense continues to be the most costly activity of government. During 1970 fiscal year, expenditures for nation- |