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1948 Washington Report 1 (1948)

handle is hein.tera/wingtore0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE TAX FOUNDATION CORHJOIR AI'KD TAX FOUNDATION INC. 2844 Connecticut Av9nue, N.W. WASHINGTON D. C. SPECIAL PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE PROPOSED ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM AND THE FEDERAL BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR1949 The budget of the United States Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949 was submitted to the Congress on January 12. Detailed analyses of the budget will be made available to the state taxoayer organizations later on,- and particularly at the Annual Conference to be held in Washington, D. C., February 16, 17, and 18. Work on those details now is under way. However, it is recognized that some infor- mation which in a general way reviews the highlights of the budget proposals could be helpful. That is the purpose of this memorandum. There is included a tabulation which presents a resume of budget receipts and expenditures, based on existing and proposed legislation, for the fiscal year 1949, and comparisons with 1947 and 1948. Even this kind of preliminary review of the 1949 fiscal year budget would be incomplete and would lack the proper significnoe if detailed references were not made to the proposed program of the Administration, as set forth in the Annual Mes- sage on the State of the Union, delivered by the President on January 7, 1948. It is generally known by now that there was included in the recommendations which make up the Administration's program not only almost everything which has been proposed in the past but also some important new proposals, along with recommenda- tions for substantial expansion of certain existing programs in the fields of social security, education, research, etc. Many recommendations dealing with proposals and projects not specifically mentioned In the State of the Union Message were incladed in the budget message, so that taken together, a good picutre of planned new spending proposals is obtained. The proposals contained in the annual message were grouped under five general goals, as follows: 1. To secure fully the essential human rights of our citizens. 2. To protect and. develop our human resources. 3. To conserve and use our natural resources so that they can contribute most effectively to the welfare of our people. 4. To lift the standard of living for all our people by strengthening our eco- nomic system and sharing more b oadly among our people the goods we produce. 5. To achieve world peace based on principles of freedom and justice and the equality of all nations. Under these five general headings the President proposed or recommended action by the Congress on all the following subjects: 1. Equal opportunity for education, enrloyment and economic advancement with- out discrimination as to race, creed, color, or land of origin. The President in- dicated that a special message would be sent to Congress on this subject. 2. Admission to the Union as states for the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii. 3. Extension of the present systems of unemployment compensation, old-age and survivors insurance bnefits to groups not now covered, and the raising of t,.e bene- fit levels,

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