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Gov. Spending Costs
To Local Residents
What portion of Federal government spending, which now totals about $190 billion a year, is borne by Rappahannock County taxpayers?
How much does it cost local residents, through income taxes and other taxes, to meet their share of the spending for national defense, education, interest on the national debt, space research and the amount of other programs?
The $190 billion total is too vast to be meaningful to most people. It becomes somewhat more comprehensible, however, when it is shown that it amounts to $6,000 per second.
The calculation was made by William V. Roth, Jr., a Delaware congressman, who has been concerned over the steadily-rising cost of government.
Rappahannock County’s share of this spending is estimated at $1.95 per day for every local resident. For the local population as a whole, it adds up to $9,000 per day.
That is based upon the proportion of its revenue that the government receives from the local area.
The part of the expenditures attributed to each community was determined from a state-by-state study made by the Tax Foundation and from local income data.
The portion shouldered by Rappahannock County residents, per capita, is greater than in many localities across the country where earnings, and therefore taxes paid, are lower.
Congressman Roth’s concern over the nation’s huge annual budget has led him to propose that a “modem Hoover-typ^ commission be set up to And out how the central government can operate more effectively efficiently and creatively.”
He called for “daring and imaginative” approaches in using the resources of government tc
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