From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing
From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing

Author: Bruce A. Wallin

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 1998-10-01

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9781589013278

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Once hailed as a revolutionary change in U.S. federal aid policy that would return power to state and local governments, General Revenue Sharing was politically dead a decade later. Bruce A. Wallin now offers the only complete history of the General Revenue Sharing program — why it passed, why state and local governments used it the way they did, and why it died. He examines its unique role in the history of U.S. federalism and explores its relevance to intergovernmental aid policy at the turn of a new century. This book is crucial to understanding the changed environment of U.S. intergovernmental relations in the 1990’s and makes a strong case for reconsidering a program of federal unrestricted aid.

Revenue Sharing
Revenue Sharing

Author: Richard E. Thompson

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Revenue sharing is not a "popular" issue like housing, health care, transportation, environmental and consumer protection. Revenue sharing is an issue related to the underlying structure of levels of government, their relationship to one another, and the power and capacity of certain governments to perform certain services. Unlike most other issues, revenue sharing does not involve a debate about what should be done with public funds, but rather who, which level of government, should decide what should be done. This volume presents a brief history of the development and expansion of revenue sharing in the United States.