General Revenue Sharing: Hearings . . . Ninety-second Congress, First Session ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 1524 páginas
 

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Página 497 - It is useless for the advocates of State rights to inveigh against the supremacy of the constitutional laws of the United States, or against the extension of national authority in the fields of necessary control where the States themselves fail in the performance of their duty.
Página 497 - The true and only way to preserve state authority is to be found in the awakened conscience of the states, their broadened views and higher standard of responsibility to the general public; in effective legislation by the states, in conformity to the general moral sense of the country; and in the vigorous exercise for the general public good of that state authority which is to be preserved.
Página 492 - I am a member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and chairman of its taxation committee.
Página 498 - Too often we accept the assertion that state and local governments must have federal revenue sharing because they have exhausted all of their own revenue sources. But is this really true? Actually, the state and local governments have access to the same resources that are available to the Federal Government. For instance, if the states wish to use the federal income tax base — and many of the states are already using it — they need only to place a surcharge on the federal income tax and require...
Página 521 - ... government will resist efforts by militant employee unions to obtain increases going beyond levels justified by productivity, inflation, and other legitimate factors. We would expect, however, that employee militancy will proceed regardless of whether or not we have general revenue sharing. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, my name is Ralph Caso. I am the elected County Executive of Nassau County, New York. It is indeed a pleasure for me to be here this morning to answer four questions...
Página 499 - ... is very poorly administered. Participants in the Claremont Round Table at Claremont Men's College in California about six years ago stated that the real property tax yields only about 1.7% of market value and called loudly for local property tax reform. A report on the Round Table said : "So expect for a few big cities, it is just plain nonsense to say that our local governments' right to collect real-property taxes gives them an inadequate tax base.
Página 497 - The charge is well founded that, at least over the past two decades, the states have, to a certain extent, failed to live up to their obligations and responsibilities. There has been a trend toward the central government taking over. Many things that are happening show a clear and present danger to our federal form of government. "I don't think the trend should be allowed to continue. When government becomes removed from the people it becomes subject to the danger of becoming more arbitrary and less...
Página 530 - Mr. CHAIRMAN. I am not going to take up any more of your time.
Página 565 - The three national organizations representing State legislators — the National Legislative Conference, the National Conference of State Legislative Leaders and the National Society of State Legislators have strongly endorsed the concept of general revenue sharing.
Página 623 - Making Congress More Effective," September 1970, that the Federal fiscal year should be changed to conform with the calendar year, not only to improve Federal operations but also to improve the quality of State and local delivery systems. Adoption of this recommendation would help to reduce or eliminate waste. The State and local fiscal years would remain as they are, so that Federal grant-in-aid appropriations could be made by December each year for use by State and local units in their following...