MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBtTN FITB
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
Tuesday, May 14, 1957
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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.
Small Boys Admit
Starting Church Fire
Chicago IW Two small boys,
one of whom said his ambition
was to be a bank robber, have
admitted setting a $500,000 fire
that destroyed St. Paul's Episco
pal church on Chicago's South
Side, police said today.
Authorities said the boys, aged
9 and 12, also admitted Monday
scores of other arsons, burglaries,
robberies and the theft of a U.S
mail truck.
The boys told authorities they
soaked the St. Paul Church's fire
hose with paint thinner to start
the blaze March 16, 1956. They
also admitted setting two fires
last fall at the Corpus Christi
Roman Catholic church.
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