Resolution 065-1972
RESOLUTION NO. 65 -1972
WHEREAS, it is presently pending before the United States Senate,
Senate Bill 3651, known as the General Revenue Sharing Bill, and
WHEREAS, Florida Senator Ed Gurney has proposed an amendment
which would eliminate the penalty against states with little or no income tax,
and
WHEREAS, the State of Florida has no personal income tax and the
Gurney amendment would grant Florida an additional $17 million a year for
badly needed state financing, now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA that it hereby endorses the Gurney amend-
ment to the General Revenue Sharing Bill, Senate Bill 3651, now pending before
the United States Congress and urges all of Floridals Senators and members of
the House of Representatives to support the Gurney amendment and Senate
Bill 3651.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY SAID BOARD that copies of this
resolution be forwarded to Floridal s United States Senators and members of
the House of Representatives representing Monroe County, Florida and by this
resolution requests them to support the above amendment and senate bill.
DATED June 20, 1972.
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