Emerson Etheridge said "What we are really doing in saying to local governments about pulling back impact aid, and in many of the cases, in many of the communities, in Fort Bragg in my district, many of these communities find themselves dependent on the impact aid. But what happens is they are getting impact aid because you have a large Federal installation not paying local property taxes. If you pull that out, in effect you are saying to the rest of the citizens in that jurisdiction, we are going to raise your taxes. We are going to say to the county commissioners to raise them or to the local governments at a time when roughly, what, 70-plus percent of the States are running huge deficits. Mr. Speaker, it is incomprehensible that this administration would place these kinds of burdens on local governments across this country." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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What we are really doing in saying to local governments about pulling back impact aid, and in many of the cases, in many of the communities, in Fort Bragg in my district, many of these communities find themselves dependent on the impact aid. But what happens is they are getting impact aid because you have a large Federal installation not paying local property taxes. If you pull that out, in effect you are saying to the rest of the citizens in that jurisdiction, we are going to raise your taxes. We are going to say to the county commissioners to raise them or to the local governments at a time when roughly, what, 70-plus percent of the States are running huge deficits. Mr. Speaker, it is incomprehensible that this administration would place these kinds of burdens on local governments across this country.

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Emerson Etheridge

Ind. Republican-Democrat · Tennessee

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of federal aid cuts on local governments and communities.

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