I have great sympathy for the problems the Senator has in his State. as well as all the other rural States in the South and Midwest. It seems to me that where we have a revenuesharing bill which makes money available to a State to enable it to be of greater service. we must recognize the special circumstances of the large States. We have higher welfare payments due to our higher standards of living. and people have emigrated to those States. even though they have not contributed in the slightest to the tax revenues in the past. They expect their local governmental agencies to provide them with assistance and services. Under the Senate version of the bill. the effect is to take away the $137 million in social services because social services are eliminated and we are given only $510 million under the revenuesharing provisions.
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People who emigrate to states do not contribute to tax revenues.