Re: Need ideas on where to cut spending.OT

Posted by Buzzman72 on August 02, 2011 at 11:30:51 from (74.129.195.67):

In Reply to: Need ideas on where to cut spending.OT posted by x22 on August 02, 2011 at 10:53:21:

All these "block grants" for states and local governments began as "revenue sharing," begun in 1972 under the Nixon administration. At the time, the idea was to have fewer taxing units; the money instead would come in to the federal government, and then the feds would distribute the money to the states. It was sold as a way to save money...which it never did.

But it was never looked at as "free money" by the states, as the feds were collecting the money on behalf of the states, and then sending the money back to the states, initially. It was simply an accounting device to keep state taxes artificailly low, since the states got the money but it was collected by the feds. By the time the feds were done creating the bureaucracies that sprung up around "revenue sharing," there was NO savings to be found in centralized collection and distribution...and states raised their taxes to where they were before, and then some.

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