HIGH APPROPRIATIONS DEFLATE GOP 'ECONOMU' CLAIM
High Appropriations Deflate GOP 'Economy' Claim Unbalanced Budget Again Brings Delay In Paving State Aid Figures Show Republican Budget At All-Time Peak and $1,000,000 Higher Than Phil's GOV....
...Following the preliminary hearing, he was bound over for trial and when he failed to produce bail, Zimdars was locked up in the Dodge county jail in Juneau...
...Heil vetoed one major appropriation...
...The Republican administration first resorted to installment payment of aids to localities in December when $3,705,000 fell due in privilege highway aids...
...Thus, in spite of "economies" made in the fields of old age pensions, relief, and departmental operations, the present state budget stands as the largest in the history of Wisconsin...
...Meanwhile, the administration again postponed meeting legal obligations as $17,745,000 in payments fell due during March, including state aids for schools and local roads...
...HEIL'S repeated claims of vast "economies" in the operation of the state government were given a severe jolting last week with publication of financial studies showing that the present Republican budget is still the highest budget in Wisconsin history, still nearly $1,000,000 higher than the last Progrcsive budget...
...Zimdars Jailed On Charges of State Job Sale ELMER P. ZIMDARS...
...and the amount due for elementary school aids is $5,315,000...
...STATE collection of individual income taxes in Wisconsin will run 33 per cent higher than a year ago, tax department officials predicted last week as the deadline for filing expired at midnight, Mar...
...This new Republican tax increase is producing most of its revenue from families and individuals in the extremely low and moderate income brackets, rather from those in the big income groups...
...Dykstra Asks Faith In Democratic Wav NEW YORRK CITY—Clarence A. Dystra, president, of the University of Wisconsin, appealed last week to alumni of Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honorary society, to have faith in democracy...
...2,500,000 for aid age pensions, and several minor ones, bringing the total to $75,000,000, or nearly $4,000,000 more than the last La Follette budget...
...testified at the Dodge county hearing that payments in the job deals were made in a sideroom in his tavern...
...New G.O.P.Tax Sends Receipts Up by 33 Pet...
...His attitude has been that the 1941 legislature can levy emergency taxes when it convenes to finance the deficiency created by the unbalanced budget...
...At a series of Joe Doe hearings it was alleged that Zimdars assured a number of persons that $100 in cash paid to him would put them on the state payroll as inspectors drawing $175 a mouth and expenses...
...Milwaukee, was jailed last week pending trial in April on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses as a result of his alleged attempts to sell jobs in the state beverage tax division...
...At the same time the unbalanced Republican budget produced a new crisis in state finances as state aidh for elementary schools and for local roads and streets fell due, resulting in another resort to installment payments to towns, cities, villages, and school districts...
...Jobless Payments Shared bv 2L000 UPWARDS of 21.000 Wisconsin workers who were totally or partially unemployed in February shared in unemployment compensation benefits totaling $513,316...
...These postponements are necessary under the administration's unbalanced budget despite the fact that March is the heaviest revenue producing month of the year, with money pouring in from income taxes and automobile license fees in addition to the regular sources of income...
...31, instead of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, as required by law...
...McKeown has taken the position that the administration need worry only about the period ending Dec...
...After the boys went home...
...Subsequently, as a result of savings achieved through emasculation of the relief act and other "economies," the total of appropriations was reduced to $72,000,000 in round numbers, or $1,000,000 in excess of the last Progressive budget...
...the industrial commission reported...
...The amount due the municipal governments of the state for local roads and streets is $5,300,000...
...The amount was paid in three installments instead of a lump sum as in the past...
...Charles McKeown, Gov...
...Heil's $5,-000 a year adviser on financial affairs, admitted last week that the Republican administration faces a tight squeeze in making both ends meet, but he said he was confident that the state would weather its series of "financial crises" by resorting to the installment plan whenever necessary...
...While the democratic way "winds through risks of every sort, through hazards and possible extinction, and it proceeds at times through the dark corners of disillusionment," he declared, "it is nonetheless the way of the fuller light and the greater chance for the greater number...
...Heil's revised budget is now $2,098,000, compared to the $71,277,000 budget of the last La Follette regime...
...This practice was continued in January when the liquor tax apportionment was paid in two installments for the first time in Wisconsin history...
...Total yield of the income tax was 515,588.680 last year, and Barlow estimated that the total will run to $19,-500.000 this year...
...As a result of Republican enactment of new surtax exemptions, 82,-000 families and individuals paid surtaxes- for the first time in history...
...Three Dodge county witnesses testified at the preliminary hearing in Mayville that they paid money to Zimdars on the strength of his promise to get them jobs with the beverage tax division through his pull with the administration in Madiosn...
...Unlike the other income tax receipts, which are divided up among the counties, the localities, and the state, the surtax proceeds remain in the state treasury and are used exclusively for operation of the state government...
...Studies of the state's financial situation revealed that the alleged "economies" claimed by the Heil administration are not savings in state costs as compared with previous administrations, but merely reductions within the Republican a d m i n i s tration's swollen, record-breaking budget...
...Here is the budget picture in a nutshell: When the 1939 legislature ended its 269-day session last fall, it left behind total appropriations of $78,000,000 in round numbers...
...Emil Arndt, Theresa tavemkeeper...
...In a speech before the Milwaukee Rotary club last week, Heil claimed that he had effected economies of $3,779,000 during his first year in office, but he failed to explain that there has been no reduction, in fact there has been a large increase over the expenditures of the last administration of Phil La Follette...
...The bulk of the i.iCTease comes from the Republican administration's increased surtax levy, Elmer Barlow, the administration's $".-000 a year tax director, admitted...
...The Milwaukee Journal, for instance, pointed out that "Gov...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 12
