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72:7.1 The [[federal]] [[government]] is paternalistic only in the [[administration]] of old-age [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension pensions] and in the fostering of [[genius]] and [[creative]] [[originality]]; the state [[governments]] are slightly more concerned with the [[individual]] [[citizen]], while the local governments are much more paternalistic or [[socialistic]]. The [[city]] (or some subdivision thereof) concerns itself with such matters as [[health]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation sanitation], building regulations, beautification, [[water]] supply, lighting, [[heating]], [[recreation]], [[music]], and [[communication]].
72:7.2 In all [[industry]] first [[attention]] is paid to [[health]]; certain phases of [[physical]] well-being are regarded as [[industrial]] and [[community]] [[prerogatives]], but [[individual]] and [[family]] [[health]] [[problems]] are matters of [[personal]] concern only. In [[medicine]], as in all other [[purely]] [[personal]] matters, it is increasingly the [[plan]] of [[government]] to refrain from interfering.
72:7.3 [[Cities]] have no [[taxing]] [[power]], neither can they go in [[debt]]. They receive per capita allowances from the [[state]] treasury and must supplement such revenue from the earnings of their [[socialistic]] [[enterprises]] and by licensing various [[commercial]] [[activities]].
72:7.4 The [[rapid-transit]] facilities, which make it [[practical]] greatly to extend the [[city]] boundaries, are under municipal control. The city fire departments are [[supported]] by the fire-prevention and insurance foundations, and all buildings, in city or country, are fireproof—have been for over seventy-five years.
72:7.5 There are no municipally appointed peace officers; the [[police]] forces are [[maintained]] by the [[state]] [[governments]]. This department is recruited almost entirely from the unmarried [[men]] between twenty-five and fifty. Most of the states assess a rather heavy bachelor [[tax]], which is remitted to all [[men]] joining the [[state]] [[police]]. In the [[average]] state the police force is now only one tenth as large as it was fifty years ago.
72:7.6 There is little or no [[uniformity]] among the [[taxation]] [[schemes]] of the one hundred comparatively [[free]] and [[sovereign]] states as [[economic]] and other conditions vary greatly in [[different]] sections of the [[continent]]. Every state has ten basic [[constitutional]] provisions which cannot be [[modified]] except by consent of the [[federal]] supreme [[court]], and one of these articles prevents levying a [[tax]] of more than one per cent on the [[value]] of any property in any one year, homesites, whether in [[city]] or country, being exempted.
72:7.7 The [[federal]] [[government]] cannot go in [[debt]], and a three-fourths [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum referendum] is required before any state can borrow except for [[purposes]] of [[war]]. Since the [[federal]] [[government]] cannot incur [[debt]], in the event of war the ''National Council of Defense'' is empowered to [[Tax|assess]] the states for [[money]], as well as for [[men]] and [[materials]], as it may be required. But no [[debt]] may run for more than twenty-five years.
72:7.8 Income to [[support]] the [[federal]] [[government]] is derived from the following five sources:
72:7.9 1. ''Import duties''. All imports are subject to a tariff designed to protect the [[standard]] of living on this [[continent]], which is far above that of any other nation on the [[planet]]. These tariffs are set by the highest industrial [[court]] after both houses of the industrial congress have ratified the recommendations of the chief executive of [[economic]] affairs, who is the joint appointee of these two [[legislative]] bodies. The upper industrial house is elected by labor, the lower by [[capital]].
72:7.10 2. ''Royalties''. The [[federal]] [[government]] [[encourages]] [[invention]] and [[original]] [[creations]] in the ten regional [[laboratories]], assisting all types of ''geniuses''—artists, [[authors]], and [[scientists]]—and protecting their [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patents patents]. In return the [[government]] takes one half the [[profits]] realized from all such [[inventions]] and [[creations]], whether pertaining to [[machines]], [[books]], artistry, [[plants]], or [[animals]].
72:7.11 3. ''Inheritance tax''. The [[federal]] [[government]] levies a graduated inheritance [[tax]] ranging from one to fifty per cent, depending on the size of an estate as well as on other conditions.
72:7.12 4. ''Military equipment''. The [[government]] earns a considerable sum from the leasing of [[military]] and naval equipment for commercial and recreational usages.
72:7.13 5. ''Natural resources''. The income from [[natural]] [[resources]], when not fully required for the specific [[purposes]] designated in the charter of federal statehood, is turned into the national treasury.
72:7.14 Federal appropriations, except [[war]] funds [[Tax|assessed]] by the ''National Council of Defense'', are originated in the upper legislative house, concurred in by the lower house, approved by the chief executive, and finally [[validated]] by the federal budget commission of one hundred. The members of this commission are nominated by the state governors and elected by the state [[legislatures]] to serve for twenty-four years, one quarter being elected every six years. Every six years this body, by a three-fourths ballot, chooses one of its number as chief, and he thereby becomes director-controller of the federal treasury.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_72 Go to Paper 72]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 72 - Government on a Neighboring Planet]]
72:7.1 The [[federal]] [[government]] is paternalistic only in the [[administration]] of old-age [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension pensions] and in the fostering of [[genius]] and [[creative]] [[originality]]; the state [[governments]] are slightly more concerned with the [[individual]] [[citizen]], while the local governments are much more paternalistic or [[socialistic]]. The [[city]] (or some subdivision thereof) concerns itself with such matters as [[health]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation sanitation], building regulations, beautification, [[water]] supply, lighting, [[heating]], [[recreation]], [[music]], and [[communication]].
72:7.2 In all [[industry]] first [[attention]] is paid to [[health]]; certain phases of [[physical]] well-being are regarded as [[industrial]] and [[community]] [[prerogatives]], but [[individual]] and [[family]] [[health]] [[problems]] are matters of [[personal]] concern only. In [[medicine]], as in all other [[purely]] [[personal]] matters, it is increasingly the [[plan]] of [[government]] to refrain from interfering.
72:7.3 [[Cities]] have no [[taxing]] [[power]], neither can they go in [[debt]]. They receive per capita allowances from the [[state]] treasury and must supplement such revenue from the earnings of their [[socialistic]] [[enterprises]] and by licensing various [[commercial]] [[activities]].
72:7.4 The [[rapid-transit]] facilities, which make it [[practical]] greatly to extend the [[city]] boundaries, are under municipal control. The city fire departments are [[supported]] by the fire-prevention and insurance foundations, and all buildings, in city or country, are fireproof—have been for over seventy-five years.
72:7.5 There are no municipally appointed peace officers; the [[police]] forces are [[maintained]] by the [[state]] [[governments]]. This department is recruited almost entirely from the unmarried [[men]] between twenty-five and fifty. Most of the states assess a rather heavy bachelor [[tax]], which is remitted to all [[men]] joining the [[state]] [[police]]. In the [[average]] state the police force is now only one tenth as large as it was fifty years ago.
72:7.6 There is little or no [[uniformity]] among the [[taxation]] [[schemes]] of the one hundred comparatively [[free]] and [[sovereign]] states as [[economic]] and other conditions vary greatly in [[different]] sections of the [[continent]]. Every state has ten basic [[constitutional]] provisions which cannot be [[modified]] except by consent of the [[federal]] supreme [[court]], and one of these articles prevents levying a [[tax]] of more than one per cent on the [[value]] of any property in any one year, homesites, whether in [[city]] or country, being exempted.
72:7.7 The [[federal]] [[government]] cannot go in [[debt]], and a three-fourths [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum referendum] is required before any state can borrow except for [[purposes]] of [[war]]. Since the [[federal]] [[government]] cannot incur [[debt]], in the event of war the ''National Council of Defense'' is empowered to [[Tax|assess]] the states for [[money]], as well as for [[men]] and [[materials]], as it may be required. But no [[debt]] may run for more than twenty-five years.
72:7.8 Income to [[support]] the [[federal]] [[government]] is derived from the following five sources:
72:7.9 1. ''Import duties''. All imports are subject to a tariff designed to protect the [[standard]] of living on this [[continent]], which is far above that of any other nation on the [[planet]]. These tariffs are set by the highest industrial [[court]] after both houses of the industrial congress have ratified the recommendations of the chief executive of [[economic]] affairs, who is the joint appointee of these two [[legislative]] bodies. The upper industrial house is elected by labor, the lower by [[capital]].
72:7.10 2. ''Royalties''. The [[federal]] [[government]] [[encourages]] [[invention]] and [[original]] [[creations]] in the ten regional [[laboratories]], assisting all types of ''geniuses''—artists, [[authors]], and [[scientists]]—and protecting their [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patents patents]. In return the [[government]] takes one half the [[profits]] realized from all such [[inventions]] and [[creations]], whether pertaining to [[machines]], [[books]], artistry, [[plants]], or [[animals]].
72:7.11 3. ''Inheritance tax''. The [[federal]] [[government]] levies a graduated inheritance [[tax]] ranging from one to fifty per cent, depending on the size of an estate as well as on other conditions.
72:7.12 4. ''Military equipment''. The [[government]] earns a considerable sum from the leasing of [[military]] and naval equipment for commercial and recreational usages.
72:7.13 5. ''Natural resources''. The income from [[natural]] [[resources]], when not fully required for the specific [[purposes]] designated in the charter of federal statehood, is turned into the national treasury.
72:7.14 Federal appropriations, except [[war]] funds [[Tax|assessed]] by the ''National Council of Defense'', are originated in the upper legislative house, concurred in by the lower house, approved by the chief executive, and finally [[validated]] by the federal budget commission of one hundred. The members of this commission are nominated by the state governors and elected by the state [[legislatures]] to serve for twenty-four years, one quarter being elected every six years. Every six years this body, by a three-fourths ballot, chooses one of its number as chief, and he thereby becomes director-controller of the federal treasury.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_72 Go to Paper 72]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 72 - Government on a Neighboring Planet]]
