Orren Chalmer Hormell
Published: 2017-10-13
Total Pages: 30
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Excerpt from Budget-Making for Maine Towns: And a Comparative Analysis of the Expenditures of Certain Maine Municipalities The financial problem of the typical Maine town is to make both ends meet. That problem is becoming more and more difficult. Population and property valuation are increas ing but slowly (in many towns not at all) while the demands for new and better services are growing by leaps and bounds. The citizens are demanding a pure and adequate water supply; inspected milk; better schools with domestic science, manual training and 'commercial courses; better lighted streets; and good roads. Such demands must be met by the town which hopes to induce desirable citizens to make their homes within its borders, to draw new industries, and to share in the lucrative summer trade. The typical town, however, desires to meet these new demands without raising the tax-rate or increasing the valuation. For a high tax-rate, it is believed, is not only burdensome to the property owners but drives away new indus tries; and an increased valuation increases, disproportionately, the burden of the county and the state tax. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.