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- Title
GENERAL REVENUE SHARING'S IMPACT ON COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
- Authors
Murphy, John C.
- Abstract
Based on the experience of counties as reported to the National Association of Counties (NACo), general revenue sharing is succeeding in achieving the purposes for which the U.S. Congress intended it. The Congress is allowing counties to at least maintain and in some instances increase the level of public services, and at the same time relieves pressures on local revenue sources, particularly the property tax. And yet in spite of this, there is criticism surfacing over the uses to which revenue sharing funds have been put. Numerous surveys and analyses have been and are being conducted on the use of general revenue sharing funds and their impact on state and local governments. In the fall of 1973, NACo undertook a survey of those counties, which have an elected executive form of government to determine their plans for using general revenue sharing funds. The NACo survey was intended to evaluate the program on the occasion of its first anniversary. The most recent survey of the use of revenue sharing funds by local governments is the Report to the Congress by the U.S. General Accounting Office. For NACo's part, reflecting the views of its member counties, general revenue sharing is a sound program, one that is absolutely essential to the financial survival of county government. Reenactment of general revenue sharing when it comes before the 94th Congress for consideration will certainly be county governments' highest legislative priority.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MUNICIPAL finance; REVENUE sharing (Governments); UNITED States. National Association of Counties; LOCAL government; PROPERTY tax; REVENUE; MUNICIPAL services; UNITED States. General Accounting Office; LAW
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1975, Vol 35, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/975171