Increasing State Taxes

INCREASING STATE TAXES.

The Net Increase is Over Two Million Dollars,

The Kalamazoo Telegraph Saturday printed nearly a page of matter compiled by State Accountant Humphrey, showing the total amount of state tax that will be apportioned to the counties in 1899-1900; also the amount authorized by previous legislatures. It includes a similar statement for the years 1897-1898.

Among the institution and miscellaneous appropriations which carry tax clauses, the increase for educational purposes was $468,320.84 ; for asylums, exclusive of insane, $311,779.95; for insane, $1,145,030.55; for reformatories, $358,190.75. A decrease of $187,484.33 is shown in the miscellaneous division, making a net increase in the tax for all purposes in 1899 and 1900 over that of 1897 and 1898 of $2,095,837.77.

The main items entering into this $2,095,837.77 increase, aside from the appropriations for buildings at the several institutions and those already enumerated, are $92,091.67 - increased aid to the university ; the items growing out of the war with Spain - i. e. soldiers' aid fund - care of sick soldiers - $184,183.33; Michigan war loan of 1898, $138,137.50, and naval brigade, $8,406.15.