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RAPPAHANNOCK NEWS
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" UP TO THE STATES
President Eisenhower belongs to that fast-growing group of authorities who believe that one way to bring abut tax reduction is for the states to assume responsibility for some of the costly activities that are now carried on by the federal governmentThe
President proposes a “task force for action” which would have a three-pronged job: 'To dseignate function* which the states are ready and willing to assume and finance, that are now performed or financed wholly or in part by the federal government; to recommend the federal and state revenue adjustments required to enable the states to assume such function ; and to identify functions' and responsibilities likely to require state or federal attention in the future and to recommend the level of state effort or federal effort, or both, that will be needed to assure efective action.” As specific examples of programs in which there should be greater state participation, the President cited slum clearance and disaster relief.
It is an obvious fact that the federal government can only spend money which it has first taken from the people and the enterprises of the states. It is also a fact that a substantial proportion of that money is absorbed by federal admin* istrative overhead—and that in most instances the states would get more concrete return out df each dollar if they did the work themselves.
Moreover, the money saving, important as it is, would be only a part of the benefits that would result. If the states knew they had to do their own financing, they’d examine spending proposals with much more critical eyes—instead of seeking government aid for all manner of unnecessary projects. Then, best of all, there would be reaffirmation of the largely forgotten principle that local needs should be met so far as possible by local action-a principle which lies at the Heart of free, representative government.
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