October 1, 1971 Tax Review: The Honest Citizen’s Guide to Revenue Sharing Henry Aaron Henry Aaron Print this page Subscribe Support our work Download Tax Review: The Honest Citizen’s Guide to Revenue Sharing Volume XXXII No. 10 Executive Summary Proposals for Federal revenue sharing with the states have aroused lively debate but contradictory assumptions pro and con on the plan result only in confusion, says Dr. Henry Aaron. “We should not base our attitudes about revenue sharing on vaguely stated objectives which upon close examination are inconsistent with one another because they depend on opposite responses by state and local governments,” he says. After analyzing the contradictory claims and assumptions, he offers an alternative procedure for achieving the goal of fiscal equalization among the states. Topics Center for Federal Tax Policy Center for State Tax Policy Tags State Tax and Spending Policy
