Milford chronicle., 1957-07-26
Herb Barnes
Recommended By
Williams For Marshal
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"Our generation has witnessed
an accelerating surrender of these
powers to the central government.
1t serves the purpose to debate
whether the transfer was by gift
or by seizure. The question before
US is whether-and how-this trend
can be reversed before it is too late.
l firmly believe the people of Del
aware want to make their own de-
cisions on this own problems, ra-
ther than have this done in Wash
ington
I'VE now have an opportunity to
make a start in this direction. At
the Conference of Governors, which
l attended as the representative of
Delaware last month in Williams
burg, Va, the President of the Uni
ted States took the initiative in pro-
posing a cooperative effort to re-
store to the states those RESPONSE
bilities which the states are will
ing to reassume.
THE result has been the appoint
ment of a bipartisan committee of
nine governors to work with repre-
sentatives of the President as a
task force with three responsible
ties, which he outlined as follows:
"'1-TO d e s gna a t e functions
which the states are ready and will
ing to assume and finance that are
now performed or financed wholly
or in part by the federal govern
ment;
"'2-TO recommend that federal
and state revenue adjustments re-
| quired to enable the states to as
/ sumo such functions; and
"'3-To identify functions and
responsibilities likely to require
state or federal attention in the
future and to recommend a level
of state effort or federal effort or
both, that will be needed to as
sure effective action
"The Importance of this under
taking to the people of Delaware
can scarcely be overemphasized.
| Certainly, no one would deny that
the municipal authorities in our
cities and towns, and the General
Assembly for our state, are in a
better position that the Congress to
decide what should be done about
carrying on functions of state or
local character.
Nor can we afford to overlook
the financial question presented
Our state and municipal treasurers
are sOrely pressed to meet rising
expenditures in fulfilling the needs
/ nf 11k
are reluctant to ask for new or in
creased revenues at the state and
local level because we know how
heavily our citizens are burdened
| by federal taxation
''Yet the latest figures available
tell us that in 1855 the federal gov
ernment collected SITS, 9,01O, 900 from
the citizens and industries of Del
aware. In return, our state and
local governments received only
$8,100,000 in federal grants in aid,
while federal payments to individ-
uals and institutions in our state
amounted to only $2,600,000.
LAS President Eisenhower told
us at Williamsburg, and I quote
again from his speech:
This effort presuppOses that
federal taxes would be cut more
than state taxes would be raised
to support the transferred func-
tions. The elimination of federal
overhead stopping, in other words
Freight charges" on money being
hauled from the state to Washing
ton and back Ga bill, I remind you,
that is always collected in fulD
would save the American taxpayer
a tidy sum-
$50, the purpose of this message
, today is to recommend that the
General Assembly of the First
State be the first in the nation to
offer its support and cooperation
for this movement to restore to
the states those rights and respon-
sibilities which are properly theirs
l am confident that an appropriate
resolution of support would not
only meet with the approval of
! our citizens, but would also lend
encouragement to those who are
actively engaged in this effort"
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