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A View From The Governor's Office
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As many people may remem
ber. I have long athocated reve
nue sharing as one of the best
ways to get the states and their
communities out of the fiscal
chaos they now face.
The need is cleai in Pennsyl
vania The Federal Government * have been woiklng on a tax
takes 70 cents out of e\ery tax leform piogram foi many weeks,
dollar collected in the Common I om now prepaied to rccom
wealth Local governments get m<? nd to Pennsylvania's General
the next laigest shaie and the Assembly that some form of rev-
State ends up with the short end onue sharing-tax reform progiam
In addition, local tax stiuctuies he made part of any levenue
are driving the taxpaveis mad '
Unfoitunatel\. at the local
le\el. Pennsvhama communities
ha\e leached the political and
economic limits of then ie\enue
raising abiht\ while being con
fionted with the cnsis of unmet
reeds
Shaied levenue fiom the Fed
eral and State level aie the best
wav to lelieve the necessitv of
imposing anv iurthei excessive
lates on existing local taxes 01 of
it-soiting to a hodge podge of un
desirable new taxes
The Fedeial Government is in
the best position to pioude the
most lelief and Piesident Xi.xon
has taken the fiist couiageous
step in revenue shaung with his
iceent announcement The
amount called for in the Piesi
denl’s plan is not enough to soh e
our problems, but it is a beginn
ing
At the State level.our levenue
ci isis has been abundantly de
bated foi too long without piop
er action to solve the pioblem
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By Gov. Raymond P. Shafer
But the problem is coming
close to a solution now, and I
want to make certain that tax ie
form and revenue sharing with
local communities is part of any
solution we icach.
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The full details of our proposal
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There are just a few things I
want to say about such a plan;
I will attach one very tight
string to our proposal: Any plan
to share revenues with our com
munities must be accompanied
by reform of local taxes so that
the burden of nuisance taxes is
icmoved.
In addition, all communities
will shaie thiough an equitable
foimula which will assure every
community that no ie\enue will
be lost as a lesult of leform.
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