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money to support local budgets was generated locally. By 1977, this leaped to 26.7 percent. Localities are collecting less revenue on a percentage basis to fund services, he noted. With the federal dollars, Lacy added, localities can expect “mandates, guidelines and strings attached.”
Lacy also saw a trend among localities towards greater diversification of tax bases and less reliance on property taxes to support local government.
In 1942, he said, local government derived 60 percent of its revenue from
84.0%