costs, with the above-mentioned amounts of the national income that do not embrace that portion of the national requirements, that would be erroneous. So for the purposes of this com- parsion we must also add to the national lncome those re- ceipts from taxes and fees which, according to the above definition, are not ordinarily included in the total value for the national income. In 1938 (o1d Reich only) these amounted to approximately 15 billion RM, and in 1939 and 1940 (including Austria and the Sudetenland) 19 billion RM for each year. The totals for national income, augmented by these sums, can be designated as social product in the broader sense. The net disbursements of the whole public budget can now he subtracted from these figures for the social product in the broader sense. To be sure, in the case of the figures for the national income amounts are involved which are ob- tained, taken all in all, on the basis of the calendar year, while the public expenditures are chiefly compose of figures from the fiscal year. But the error is insignificant. If we establish this difference between social product and public expenditure, we must understand that the portion of the national income available from private enterprise is by no means restricted to the remainder. To be sure, the government itself uses the great majority of what it takes from |