Show Sharing The Debt When the question of the federal government gov goy sharing tax revenue with the states is discussed another question is raised Instead of sharing revenue after the central government has collected it why not reduce federal taxes and let the states collect their own In the publication Oregon Voter M. M A A. A Tewksbury outlines w what h hat a t probably accounts for the pressure from the individual states for revenue sharing shar shar- ing He lie observes They want Washington Washing Washing- ton to hand out large chunks of money to the states for general fund use with no strings attached This proposal pays great tribute to the ruthless efficiency of the federal tax collecting machin machin- cry ery since the states are arc in effect admitting admitting ad ad- that they cannot collect the same money themselves but prefer to have pave the impersonal Internal Revenue Service do it State politicians are far more subject to the voters' voters antipathy to more taxes than is Washington As Mr 1 Tewksbury points out out there isn't any surplus revenue to share share- The federal government not only has no surplus but is running well into the red Any sharing of non-existent non revenues revenues re reo re- re venues will witt necessarily required a deeper deep deep- er descent into red ink The states might consider sharing the federal debt because that is what they'll be bo doing anyway |