ISBN: 9781153688826

Excerpt: ...and estimated for the same period are $266,000,000, indicating an anticipated surplus at the close of the year of $90,000,000. The total value of the exports from the United S… Plus…

Excerpt: ...and estimated for the same period are $266,000,000, indicating an anticipated surplus at the close of the year of $90,000,000. The total value of the exports from the United States to foreign countries during the fiscal year is stated and compared with the preceding year as follows: The value of some of our leading exports during the last fiscal year, as compared with the value of the same for the year immediately preceding, is here given, and furnishes information both interesting and suggestive: Our imports during the last fiscal year, as compared with the previous year, were as follows: In my last annual message to the Congress attention was directed to the fact that the revenues of the Government exceeded its actual needs, and it was suggested that legislative action should be taken to relieve the people from the unnecessary burden of taxation thus made apparent. In view of the pressing importance of the subject I deem it my duty to again urge its consideration. The income of the Government, by its increased volume and through economies in its collection, is now more than ever in excess of public necessities. The application of the surplus to the payment of such portion of the public debt as is now at our option subject to extinguishment, if continued at the rate which has lately prevailed, would retire that class of indebtedness within less than one year from this date. Thus a continuation of our present revenue system would soon result in the receipt of an annual income much greater than necessary to meet Government expenses, with no indebtedness upon which it could be applied. We should then be confronted with a vast quantity of money, the circulating medium of the people, hoarded in the Treasury when it should be in their hands, or we should be drawn into wasteful public extravagance, with all the corrupting national demoralization which follows in its train. But it is not the simple existence of this surplus and its threatened attendant... Grover Cleveland, Books, History, State Of The Union Address Books>History The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Presidents -- United States -- Messages; United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981; United States -- Economic policy -- 1971-1981; Political Science / General; Reference / General; Political Science / General; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy; Political Science / Government / Comparative; Political Science / History<

ISBN: 9781153688826

Grover Cleveland, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~United States~~General State-of-the-Union-Address~~Grover-Cleveland General Books LLC The bo… Plus…

Grover Cleveland, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~United States~~General State-of-the-Union-Address~~Grover-Cleveland General Books LLC The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Presidents -- United States -- Messages; United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981; United States -- Economic policy -- 1971-1981; Political Science / General; Reference / General; Political Science / General; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy; Political Science / Government / Comparative; Political Science / History<

ISBN: 9781153688826

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