Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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School officials regard Impact Aid as manna. They can spend it on anything they want?books, teachers' pay, a new swimming pool?with a minimum of red tape and no federal inspections. The San Diego school district administers its $11.7 million in Impact Aid with one accountant and one clerk. Says Dave Fish, who supervises the funds in San Diego: "Out here people are worried about the property tax. If we didn't get this aid, we would have had to increase local taxes. And why shouldn't the Federal Government pay its rent...
...vague sense, Impact Aid is a form of rent paid by the Government in lieu of local taxes on federal buildings and property. But Carter Administration officials, who are trying to cut the fat out of a half-trillion-dollar budget, point out that often the money from Impact Aid goes to communities whether they need it or not. Some of the biggest beneficiaries are among the wealthiest school districts in the nation. Montgomery County, Md., has a per capita income about 50% above the national average, thanks largely to the battalions of Washington bureaucrats who live there. Even though...
Every President since Eisenhower has proposed reductions, but without success. Says Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano: "It is an annual rite of spring for the Executive Branch to march up Capitol Hill with a broad proposal to reform Impact Aid and to march down the hill in the summer without...
...proposal has ever been made to stop funds for children of employees who actually live on federal property. But scrapping aid for people who live on private property?and thus pay local taxes?would save about $400 million annually. This year the Administration proposed saving $76 million through such minor changes as stopping payments for children whose parents work on federal property outside the county where their school district is located. House and Senate subcommittees not only ignored those requests but added benefits...
...three congressional districts that now do not get Impact Aid?but will do so, if the changes are enacted as expected. Says he: "Why make a distinction between the federal employee wearing a postal uniform and one wearing a Navy uniform?" It is on logic like this that Impact Aid will again glide through Congress. Yet until Congress and the public realize that Impact Aid is not funny money but comes from taxes on everyone, there is scant hope of controlling federal spending...