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Show Page 4 The UTAH INDEPENDENT . r t , The Paper That Dares To Take . A Stand November 17, 1972 increased federal spending, STENNIS INDICTS REVENUE SHARING He raised the possibility of a substantial increase in Washington, D.C. Senator John C. Stennis has warned that adoption of the Revenue lead to income taxes to pay for the program noting that the bill provides for seven percent Sharing Bill will greatly increased calling it fiscally irresponsible and questioning whether it would achieve the objectives sought by its sponsors. Nixon and President to refute the premise that the bill should also contain a seven percent increase in income taxes. Who will introduce a bill to increase the peoples taxes? It will not happen (this session of Congress). Yet it is absolutely necessary that the deficit in our national finances not be difficult members of his Administration have made many hard decisions over the last four years, for which I commended him at the time and have strongly supported his position in Stennis many instances. increased in this fashion. The proposal that is before us is fiscally irresponsible from the outset, and it will become worse very quickly. Does anyone believe that once these block grants have been started they can be stopped or decreased in size or even held at the original level? Certainly not. They will said. Now I respectfully say to the Chief Executive that I think he should tell the American people: Of course, we cannot go on year after year spending far more each year than we have. Of course we cannot continue to add new programs and extend old ones, all on deficit spending. Of course, we must buckle up our belts and do on a little less if we are to preserve our fiscal system and our free and open economy. Of course, we are going to have to increase taxes some just to avoid going further in the red, and thus bringing to the brink of disaster our financial structure, both and from receipts individual federal income taxes to be set aside to finance revenue sharing. Since there is no surplus revenue to share, this seven percent set aside will simply increase the deficit by that amount, Senator Stennis contended. I think it is intolerable expansion of the U.S. Budget deficit. In a speech on the Floor of the Senate, Stennis scored the Revenue Sharing proposal on several counts public the of federal taxes or an grow, inevitably and perpetually. The Senator believes the bill presents no hope of reducing taxes, saying the formula in the measure for distributing funds is such that if a state or local were government to economize and reduce its local taxes, the federal contribution would be decreased. Under the formula, the private, way a state or local government would obtain greater dividends from the Federal Government would be to increase its own taxes. All this money comes out of throughout Ihe Nation. The people already know these things, anyway. The common sense ot the common man tells him they are true. Thev are entitled to have them pointed out by those at the top in authority, he said. the pockets of the American citizen, and there is no real comfort in this bill for the taxpayer, Stennis said. The original proposal for sharing federal revenue with the states . . . would have been financed by discontinuing certain federal programs, taking the money previously spent on those programs and passing it on to the states as a block Stennis said. The grant, states could then decide whether they wished to use the money to continue the previous programs or devote it to such other purposes as they felt might better suit their needs. In other words, it was a device to move some fiscal decision making from the federal level to the state level, a concept merit, he said. be brought in line with federal income. Then there will be ways to see that total governmental income properly divided between national, state and local Stennis said. -- NEWS RELEASE from Senator John C. Stennis that has monitor benefits from block grants such as those proposed for state and local governments under the measure, lessening the possibility of increased local control over spending decisions and opening the door to more extensive control of local spending by the Federal Government in the future. ...this bill, marks a permanent departure from the road that our republic has followed for almost two hundred years. In time (revenue sharing) will be a millstone around the necks of both federal and .local governments. We will have a that commitment will endure as long as our form of government survives. Stennis said. The senator of passage said with the revenue and other measures calling for greatly sharing Eggs AVAILABLE DAILY AT WHOLESALE PRICES Closed Sundays 539 West 3900 South Salt Lake City (801) bill 262-545- 4 Open 7 a.m.-- 4 p.m BUY BY THE DOZEN OR THE CASE AND SAVE HAIMSEIM-IMIEDERHAUSE- INC. 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Frozen for restaurants and bakeries. . . governments, to make-ma- it now. ke If you have a preparation it now. to make-ma- ke If you have children to train-tra- them now. in Time is passing and you are passing out of time. -- Roy L. Laurin, ' . The Regular Baptist Call A modest person hardly blows his knows in public. Federal Employees Need Right To Work Law The need for legislation affirming the Right to Work for all Federal employees has never been more clear than it is today. First, a recent Federal court ruling that the Hatch Act is unconstitutionally vague has put in jeopardy the 1932 law which serves to protect civil servants from political coercion. Then, on the heels of the court decision. Sen. Gale McGee Chairman of the Post Office and Civil Service Committee, stood before a group of union pros and proposed that all Federal employees be required , as a condition of employment, to take an active role in the campaigns or get out of government. This astounding pronouncement gives added significance to drive by union officials to eliminate the ongoing the present prohibition against compulsory unionism in Federal service. Currently a Presidential Executive Order, which exists at the discretion of the Administration, is all that protects the Right to Work of Federal employees. (Postal employees are protected by the Right to Work provision of the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act). The Presidential Executive Order is too iffy. An Act of Congress, in line with the proposals made by and Rep. Ben Blackburn Sen. Wallace F. Bennett would guarantee forever that the merit system, not a between union officials and system of political politicians, always controls public employment. Federal employees must remain free to reject union officials who they feel do not represent them, and wholeheartedly support the ones they do. 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