GOP ADMITS STATE BUDGET HIGHEST IN HISTORY AND OUT OF BALANCE TO TUNE OF $12,000,000
GOP Admits State Budget Highest in History And Out of Balance To Tune of $12,000,000 Economy Myth Gets Official Going-Over In Blue Book Study Progressive Nest Egg and Highway Diversion to Finance...
...encourage development of the state's conservation and recreational possibilities...
...To the thoughts expressed by these hundreds of people on state affairs, I heartily subscribe...
...Heil was invited to give a five minute greeting to the Young Republican banquet, but, as one Republican paper reixirted, he ran the five minutes to an hour, and instead of offering greetings, launched into a long defense of his administration...
...While refusing to go on record In support of the state Republican administration, the Young Republicans listened to a spirited attack on that administration's failure to keep its campaign pledge against appointment of legislators to high-salaried state Jobs...
...Two years afterwards he went to the state senate, to which body he was reelected in 1934 and 1938...
...His decision, he said, followed a conference of party leaders at his home last week...
...He received his secondary education at Colby High school and subsequently was graduated from the Williams Business college at Oshkosh...
...On the other hand, the administration is looking to an increase of more than SI.000.000 in the yield from the 60 per cent surtax, which is the tax which the Republicans last year slapped on those having small and moderate incomes...
...He said that he soon would announce a 'forward Wisconsin" program on which he would campaign...
...Morvin Duel, both Republicans, to $5,000 a year berths as public service commissioner and Insurance commissioner respectively...
...Lawrence Donovan, Milwaukee, offered a resolution blasting the Republican administration for violating the platform in appointing Assemblyman Reuben W. Peterson and Sen...
...Douglas county...
...GOP Admits State Budget Highest in History And Out of Balance To Tune of $12,000,000 Economy Myth Gets Official Going-Over In Blue Book Study Progressive Nest Egg and Highway Diversion to Finance Deficit Created hy Republicans AFTER months of spreading the myth of "economy" through the distribution of tons of propaganda, the Republican administration made a series of startling admissions last week regarding its financial operations during the past year and a half...
...He was first elected to the Douglas county board of supervisors in 1921...
...Five years later he was elected a member of the state assembly and was reelected in 1928...
...Meeting in Eau Claire, Young Republicans completely side-stepped the issue created by the bitter intra-party scrap between Gov...
...3. Shortages will be made up by using all of the $6,-000,000 nest egg left by the last Progressive administration and by diverting highway funds to the tune of more than S6,000,000...
...set up a just and equitable social security and welfare program finanred by other than property taxes, thus giving real and consistent economy for the benefit of Wisconsin's farmers, home owners and small businessmen...
...The tabulations show that the present state budget is $72,097,993...
...From his farm in Maple...
...is collecting more taxes than other administration in history, its own figures show...
...Nelson issued a formal announcement of his candidacy to end speculation on his political plans in the approaching campaign...
...solve the plight of agriculture and release the products of Wisconsin dairy farms from monopolistic bondage...
...Nelson said: "I learned that they are desirous of a comprehensive and constructive program to restore opportunity to Jobless youth...
...Nelson...
...Correspondents noted that outside of Hell himself, who defended his administration in an hour's campaign talk, Peterson, who got his present $5,000 a year berth from Heil, was the only speaker lo praise the record of the Heil regime...
...Pointing out that he had visited virtually every county in Wisconsin during recent months and had discussed the campaign with hundreds of persons...
...In 1937 he broke with the Republican party to throw his strength behind the Progressive administration, and in 1938 campaigned as a Progressive for reelection...
...Philip E. Nelson, Maple, who led Progressive forces in the senate during the 1939 legislature, formally announced his candidacy for the Progressive nomination for governor last week...
...The tax tables appearing In the Blue Book show that the Republican administration actually expects to collect less money during this biennium from the normal income tax, which is the real ability to pay tax...
...Estimated collections for the present 1939-41 biennium are $51,210,000, or more than $3,000,000 in excess of tax collection in 1937-1939 and $5.-000.000 more than in the 1935-1937 Progressive biennium...
...Heil and Robert K. Henry, Jefferson banker who would like to get Heil's job...
...It was only a few minutes before Donovan's action that Peterson, who would like to run for the U. S. Senate, lauded the Heil administration "which gave you a program you can be proud of...
...In an article in the newly published 1940 Wisconsin Blue Book, Charles McKeown, Gov...
...or nearly $1,000,000 higher than the last Progressive administration budget, and $12,000,000 higher than the budget of the Progressive administration during 1935-37...
...Another significant, disclosure appears in the inheritance tax tabulation which reveals that the Republican administration expects more than $1,400,000 less during the present biennium than was collected during the 1937-1939 period...
...4. Taxes are now the highest in the history of the state...
...PhilipE.Nelson Is Formally in Governor Race STATE Sen...
...Heil's financial secretary, produced official tables which formally admitted that: 1. The present state budget is the highest in the history of Wisconsin...
...Although the present budget is unbalanced to the tune of $12,-000.000, the Republican administrator...
...This sharp drop results from legislation passed by the Republican-controlled legislature granting huge tax exemptions to inheritors of large estates...
...Youth Division of Republicans Snubs Regime ALTHOUGH its own party is in power In the state capitol, the Young Republican organization of Wisconsin refused last weekend to endorse its record of activity...
...2. The budget is more than $12,000,000 out of balance...
...48 years old, was born on a farm in Clark county and has lived in Wisconsin all his life, with the exception of the year and a half during which he served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France...
...resume the abandoned program of construction and maintenance of the state's main and farm-to-market highways by putting a stop to the indiscriminate use of gasoline taxes and motor vehicle license fees for other than purposes for which the taxes and fees are levied...
...than was collected during the 1937-1939 biennium...
...These facts, cited by Progressives during the past six months, emerge officially for the first time now in the compilations of the Repub1ic a n administration itself...
...Restore vital educational and other services that have been curtailed and as a result have inflicted hardship upon those citizens who are least able to pay...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 22
