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From: wilner@pegasus.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.taxes
Subject: Re: earmarking tax money
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Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 10:30:47 EST
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On the local level, taxes are ear-marked, sort of, on the
appropriation end, rather than the revenue end.  School districts
and other entities have to go to the voters to get bonds approved.
Why not (he said naively) require each department of the gov't,
and let's throw in the Federal gov't and the moon while we're at it,
go to the voters each time they want to raise their annual budget.
They say by how much and we say yea or nay.  They still get to
decide how to spend their revenue.  And what are the odds that
any department will ever propose a reduction in their annual
spending?
			houti!pegasus!wilner