The Budget: A Monthly Magazine to Advocate Economy and Efficiency in the Business of GovernmentWalter Gray Miller National Budget Committee, 1923 |
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The Budget: A Monthly Magazine to Advocate Economy and Efficiency in the ... Walter Gray Miller Visualização integral - 1924 |
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Página 2 - General may be removed at any time by joint resolution of Congress after notice and hearing when, in the judgment of Congress, the Comptroller General or Assistant Comptroller General has become permanently incapacitated or has been inefficient, or guilty of neglect of duty, or of malfeasance in office, or of any felony or conduct involving moral turpitude, and for no other cause and in no other manner except by impeachment.
Página 1 - No estimate or request for an appropriation and no request for an increase in an item of any such estimate or request and no recommendation as to how the revenue needs of the Government should be met shall be submitted to Congress or any committee thereof by any officer or employee of any department or establishment unless at the request of either .House of Congress.
Página 15 - Never have the foundations been laid for a thorough consideration of the relations of all of its parts. No comprehensive effort has been made to list its multifarious activities or to group them in such a way as to present a clear picture of what the government is doing. Never has a complete description been given of the agencies through which these activities are performed.
Página 8 - ... or from investments is beyond question. In the first case, the income is uncertain and limited in duration; sickness or death destroys it and old age diminishes it. In the other, the source of the income continues; the income may be disposed of during a man's life and it descends to his heirs.
Página 16 - ... and shall be included by him in the Budget without revision ; (b) His estimates of the receipts of the Government during the ensuing fiscal year, under (1) laws existing at the time the Budget is transmitted and also (2) under the revenue proposals, if any, contained in the Budget; (c) The expenditures and receipts of the Government during the last completed fiscal year...
Página 5 - Treasury at the end of the fiscal year in progress, and (3) the estimated condition of the Treasury at the end of the ensuing fiscal year if the financial proposals contained in the Budget are adopted...
Página 7 - Finally, this system of preparing the budget will confine the attention of the Executive, of Congress, and of the public to the one great important question, to wit, the relation of the money actually to be spent by the Government to the money actually to be received by the Government in any given year, all its outstanding obligations and indefinite commitments, projects, and enterprises considered.
Página 2 - Another reform which is urgent in our fiscal system is the abolition of the right to issue tax-exempt securities. The existing system not only permits ^a large amount of the wealth of the Nation to escape its just burden but acts as a continual stimulant to municipal extravagance. This should be prohibited by constitutional amendment. All the wealth of the Nation ought to contribute its fair share to the expenses of the Nation.
Página 2 - There is created an establishment of the Government to be known as the General Accounting Office, which shall be independent of the executive departments and under the control and direction of the Comptroller General of the United States.
Página 2 - ... Chief Executive. The officials to whom I refer were apparently of the impression that the estimates which their respective departments or establishments submitted to the Bureau of the Budget, were the official estimates which they were authorized to advocate before the congressional committees. I trust this erroneous impression will not prevail hereafter. If Congress desires estimates other than those submitted by the Chief Executive, it has reserved unto itself in the Budget and Accounting Act...