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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1957)
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBtTN FITB In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Tuesday, May 14, 1957 t-3 Let's talk a little more today about the subject of federal spending particularly federal spending for things other than war and national defense. When get into a war, we have to jgo through with it no matter -what it costs. In these days when wars are fought largely in the ir, possibly with atomic wea pons, we HAVE to be ready to defend ourselves at the drop of hat. Never again can we declare "war officially and then spend a year or more getting ready to fight. Those days are gone for ever. The next war will start NOT with a formal declaration but with enemy bombers over head or enemy guided missiles falling on our cities. So we can assume that what HAS to be spent for war and na tional defense has to be spent. LET'S talk today about other kinds of federal spending, with emphasis on the kind that got started when states, cities, counties and so on began to find out they could get what at the time seemed to them to be MAN NA FROM HEAVEN money from Uncle Sam. That, started a rush on the fed eral treasury that has had mora mentous consequences to the taxpayers. THAT raises this question: Has it turned out to be manna from heaven money? SOME interesting light has been shed on that subject by the National Tax Foundation, Inc., a privately end owed ' tax re search organization, in a pamph let entitled Allocating the Fed eral Tax Burden Among the States. According to this pamphlet 14 states pay back to the govern ment in federal taxes more money than they receive from all forms of federal spending within their borders. The other 34 states get back more in fed eral spending than they pay in federal taxes. I suppose it could be said that in these 34 states at least a part of the money received from Uncle Sam is manna from heaven money. The manna, of course, . is provided by the 14 states that pay back to the federal govern ment more money than they get. T ET'S take a look now at Ore- gon. Oregon is barely over the line on the manna side. For every dollar it gets from the federal government, it pays back 96 cents in federal taxes. Among the states that are on the manna side, Oregon gets the LEAST manna. Next in line is Florida, which pays back 93 cents out of each dollar it gets in the way of federal spending. NOW for California our neighbor just over the bord er from us down here in South ern Oregon. California is just over the line n the MANNA GIVING side. For every dollar California re ceives in the form of federal spending, it PAYS BACK $1.05 in federal taxes. THAT is to say: If we're wise here in Southern Oregon and Far North ern California, we'll look rath er carefully in the mouth of the gift horse before accepting it or at least before ASKING for it. - On the Oregon side, we pay back all but four cents of each gift dollar we receive. Our neigh bors on the California side pay back $1.05 for each gift dollar they receive. T ET'S take a look now at our neighbors. For every dollar Arizona gets from good old Uncle" Sam, she pays back only 51 cents. Nevada pays back only 48 cents. Idaho pays back 46 cents Utah pays back 49 cents. Washington- pays back 79 cents. In other words, Arizona, Nev ada. Utah, Idaho and Washing- to at least know what they're about when they yell for more government spending. They get back a lot of manna. We of Ore gon just about break even. Our neighbors over the line in Calif ornia GET GYPPED. 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