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Just a year ago last week it was my
privilege to come before you at your annual
meeting in Jacksonville and there to make
my first public address since the General
Election in November. At that time i was
not yet governor, but i knew full well
that accession to the powers of that office
would not turn into reality the dreams
and ambitions I had for Florida; that if
this were to be done, the support, the
leadership, the cooperation, the guidance
of the members of the Florida business
community was an indispensable element;
and that in no way better than through
the Florida btate Chamber of Commerce could
that element be secured.
The political campaigns through which
i had then so recently some were hitter
ones, and in spite of all that i had been
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of them upon the assurance we gave that
the'hnds would increase beyond then
predictable levels. it is a source of Joy
to me that the Comptroller of the State
of Florida has already increased his
estimate of revenues 11 million dollars
over his previous estimate. Let me point
out that in July collections of the sales
tax were almost 2 per cent below a year
ago, august collections were 1-1/4 plr
cent over a year ago, September collections
were 4-3/4 per cent over a year ago,
October collections were 7-1/4 per cent
above a year ago, for a not change in that
four months' period of over 9 percentage
points. If the economy of Florida
continues to grow as i confidently
anticipate it will, we shall have money
to pay all of our operating obligations,
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to meet our otherwise unmet capital outlay
needs, and perhaps even to build a small
reserve for the future.
One year ago the problems of higher
education were much in our minds. I said
to you then: "One of the critical needs, if
we are to set out on this new adventure,
is the minds to guide us. i read wit
unbridled envy that in the State of
California there reside some twelve hobel
prize winners in the field of physics and
other sciences. If we would make the most
of the opportunity for leadership afforded
us by our geographic and climatic situation
we must have the minds, and I see no place
to hope for them except in our universities."
It would have been a good thing, of
course, If the Legislature would have
enacted a proposal for Constitutional
amendment which would have made available
for capital outlay In institutions of
higher learning the millions of dollars
in the education fund and to be derived
from escheat under a new law passed in the
last session. The proposal did pass the
senate overwhelmingly, but despite the
existence of 85 pledges for the proposal
In the House it failed the passage by not
more than five minutes on the final day
beeause of the lapse of time. is are,
therefore, faced with an unmet need, an
expressed intention to provide for that
need by the Legislature, appropriation in
a second priority status for specific
buildings selected by the Legislature. he
also have, because of legislative action
taken in the 1961 session, statutory
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autherity for the ieouehee of revenue
certificates relying upon legislatively
established and approved eonrees of revenue
to raise the money to u the job. he we
set forth to meet this challenge one hears
the cry that we are setting off into some
unohartered and dangerous eaters. These
waters are neither unohertered nor dongerou:
They are not unchartered beoouee the etete
Board of Administration alone has heretofor:
issued revenue certifieatee in the amount
of {358 million. They are not dangerous
because we do hut wade where othtee have
seen. During the last six oalener year
the htate Board of Ldminietrotion issued
{lemillion of obligations; durieg the
eleven months of this administration we have
issued only {16 million, and have paid {14
up
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million on old obligations with a net
increase of liability completely neglirible.
One of the great resoursae nish we have
been able to use this year has been the
great pool of citizens committees and heard 8
of individuals from North Plnria, ecuth
Florida, East and nest. who have rnnognized
that the problems of Florida are universal
within the State and'hot the concern for
their constructiVe solution is as great
in Hilton as it is in lami.
it was under the leadership of bankers
and other business men not'ethin the ranks
of government that our long sought escheat
law became a reality last year.
It was thoough a citizens committee
that at long lost a realistic approach to
the problem of obscent literature flooding
our newsstands was devised, and it is
through the continued leadership of that
cenmitteehat this much talked about and
little done about problem is being eontrolled
on a state-wide bases.
A committee of knowledgeable citizens
is today embarked on a study of the quality
of our educatienal system that will do for
it what a similar committee did more than
a decade ago when it looked at the quantity
of education and formulated as a result the
minimum foundation program.
it is a citizen's study group that is
seeking the means by which the area
surrounding Cape Canaveral can mae the new
pressures and best benefit free the new
stimulus that the manned lunar flight program
will generate here In the next few years.
Another groun is seeking to find ways to
prevent us from falling prey to the
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undesirable growth which our great
expansion brings e ehose areas not
properly protected by planning and zoning
codes. This gene will insure'&et the giant
strip ciiiee new springing up oleng both
our coasts will he sources 0? pride to
us in future years, not a blighi epen our
landscapes and a drain upon our resources.
The Council of 100, on vhioh many of
you serve, is filling a vital role as an
independent, self-financed spawning ground
for ideas and planning for tomorrow's needs
which those of us concerned with meeting
today's demands have not the time or the
imagination to conceive or carry forward.
The Florida Development Cooperation,
made possible by action of the 1961
Legislature, but manned, financed and
operated exclusively by the'bueineee
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community of Florida, will serve to assist
worthwhile businesses desirous of locating
or expondtng in our state. erking closely
with the corporation will be the industrial
development division of the Florida
Development Commission, about which you
have heard during your seeeions here today.
in tourism the Steering Committee i
named early this year is uniting all segments
that vital Florida industry in a concerted
effort to make the 12 million persons who
will visit us this year wont to come back
often and to sell others on the pleasant
treatment accorded by Floridians to their
out-of-stete guests. They are financing
from within their own industry a program
that will, i believe. soon be emulated by
the other tourist conscious states of the
nation and which is doing much'to assure
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Floridago preweminemt yositiun u
Amerio393 wacatlonlandc
Our state has henefitted from the
services offered by such opacialize groups
as the accountants and the publu rolatiooe
organizations who have share with as
knowledge not otherwise obtainable which
has enabled us to improve the syatems we
utilize and more wisely evaluate tho many
opportunities for more effectiVe action
suggested to us.
torklng shoulder to shoulder with these
and many other groups are Committees of
the State Chamber; in which you haVH taken
active roles. The cooperation between
the Chamber and your state government has
been a source ofgincaloulable benefit to
the Etete of Flaida. may i record new
that I have never calleduupon an official
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nor a committee chairman or member of the
Florida State Chamber of Commerce for any
service that was not gladly and freely
given.
nowhere is this cooperation better
shown than through the activities of your
Committee on Higher Education, which has
been of immeasurable aid to us in the
development of assund and businesslike plan
for meeting the university building needs
we face today and doing so without obligatlng
us beyond the capacities of our resources
or hindering future growtho
Another of the aspirations that i have
held for Florida is that she demonstrate
her ability properly to discharge the function
and responsibilities assigned to her by the
Constitution of the United States. | an
conscious of the fact, and fearful of the
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able to do, the issue of sectionaliem
was one of the great issues of the
campaign. i felt that among other things
that the people of Florida had said in
choosing me to be governor was that they
were tired of sectionalism, they were
tired of being divided each against the
other, they were determined, if possible,
with united vigor to attack common problems.
i can tell you now what I am sure
you know anyway: that the forces which
unite Florida are much stronger than those
forces which have divided it; that the
energies we formerly dissipated fighting
among ourselves have now in large degree
been concentrated upon achieving common
goals; that while there is still a long
ways to go to achieve the degree of
union which we desire and which Flodda
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fact,hat today the almost universal
elixer for every govermental ill is the
toxic beverage of Federal aid. Perhaps
the best answer to these proposals is the
recognition that the remarkable advances
that have been made in'me field of civil
government provision in the United States
have been made by local governments. In
1960 when civil government in the United
states cost about (63 billion, 54 per cent
of the expenditures took place on the
local level, 23 per cent at the state level
and 18 per cent at the Federal level. But
of the £52 billion for general government
purposes spent by state and local governments,
only {7 billion in grants and shared
revenues came from the Federal government.
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= Even more remarkable is the fact that I
between 1950 and 1960 when the direct
expenditures of state and local governments
increased by 128 per cent Federal direct
expenditures for civil government rose less
than 50 per cent.
Florida, in spite of its problems of
growth, as a state is keeping pace with
the nation in the provision of local general
revenues. In 1960 when states provided 28
per cent of local general revenue on an
average, Florida povided 27 per cent.
that this means, in simplest terms,
is that the state and local governments in
the nation, when properly administered. can
provide the sincws of growth of the greatest
nation in the world during a period of
maximum economic struggle and maximum
population expansion. Florida hs the capacit;
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to provide that level of service for its
people which its own people desire to
provide, leaving properly to the Federal
government expenditures in the area of
national defense, foreign affairs, veterans
benefits, interest payments, commerce, and
other civil government services.iThose of
us who cry out for the right to discharge
properly state functions do not thereby
fight the Federal Goernment, but rather
strengthen it in those areas properly
granted under the Constitution to the
Federal Government.
The people of Florida should reflect
with pride that they still have and should
jealously hoard reserves for revenue
production which are vast. he do not have
an income tax, we do not have a death tax,
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our sales tax rate is comparatively low
and the exemptions from it are many, our
state taxes upon business are low, and our
share of the $52 billion of indebtedness now
owed by the state and local governments is
relatively small. Thereis room in which
the people of Florida and the economy of
Florida can grow, and wise government will
always keep it that way.
I wish there were time now to explore
the years ahead, but that must be reserved
for some future time. Let me and this year
and hose remarks on the note with which I
began them both -- the governsnnt of Florida
is but a tool for the use of its citizens.
it has no strength other than your strength,
no creative power that you do not give it.
It has no wisdom divinely granted, it has
no immunity from mistake. Whatever
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variations there may be from time to
time in the graph of progress because of
personalities who briefly brighten or
darken the scene, the long range trend,
the significant trend; is set. maintained
and realized by the people of Florida. and
achieved to a great degree through leader-
ship provided by the public spirited citizens
who make up the membership of the Florida
State Chamber of Commerce. I am proud
of the progress Florida has made by reason
of the efforts of her citizens -- i am
confident there is no dream we can dream,
no ambition we can hold but what Flodda is
capable of realizing.
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deserves, we have come further already
than i could have hoped when I spoke to
you last.
he have achieved, in one eesion of
the Legislature, both legislative
reapportionment and congressional redistrict
ing. i would not suggest to any of you
that the solution we arrived at was a
perfect solution. it is obvious to everyone
however, that we made giant strides forward.
It is easy for critics with calculating
machines b point out inequities; it is
equally easy for those who have been molded
in the crucihle of legislative battle where
vital issues for the progress of Florida
were lost by margins of one, two and three
votes, to tell you with fierce conviction
that that gains that have been made in
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legislative reapportionment are enough
to tip the scales of battle whenever the
large and significant interests of the
State of Florida are the issue. There is
one story that percentage figures don't
tell: that while our people are moving
from the farms to the cities our counties
and their representatives are everywhere
developing a larger concern for he problem
of cities; and as our legislators are
increasingly a product of good schools
and fine colleges the characteristics which
historically made representatives of rural
communities anathema to cities are
disappearing. In the Lmerican way we depend
upon evolution, not revolution.
A year ago when i spoke to you Florida
was beset by racial tensions which
manifested themselves in conduct harmful
to Florida and all her people. Today there
is a climate under which the people of
Florida are evolving for themselves their
own solutions to the myriad problems which
arise out of the social conflicts of our
day. I am not so foolish as to claim credit
for this improved climate; I am proud to
reflect that every action by this
administration has been to create a climate
in which people, under most difficult
circumstances, can work out their own
solutions to these problems; and that for
a year now there has been none of the
physical strife and violence, nor the
harmful mass demonstrations, which formerly
marked our calendar and which continue to
bring distress to our friends and neighbors
all over the nation.
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it was just twelve months age that
Florida was the subject of national
criticism because of the conduct of our
interstate highway program, and almost
$5 million of Federal funds earned by the
State was withheld because of that conduct.
Today that criticism is behind us, every
cent of monies due us from the Bureau of
Public Roads has been released, and our
standing before the Bureau and before the
eyes of the notion is as clean and unsullied
as it ought to be. Ls have reorganized
our right-of-wsy department9 strengthened
our testing department, improved our
inspection procedures, and as a result we
have been able to accelerate our programming
for highways in Florida substantially
beyond even what had been hoped could be
done.
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One of the problems which we faeed
at this meeting last year was the building
of the turnpike. i had promised the people
of Florida that if it could he done i
would do it. it can be dooe ~~ it is taint
done. lnevltably in such a vast project
there are some interests which cannot be
satisfied. I am not unmindful of their
legitimate interests even where they meet
be euhjugated to the greater interests of
the greater number. There are those who
cry that the turnpike is not being built
and financed In the way it ought to be done,
Perhaps not -- we lay no eieim to
omniscienoe -- but I would submit that the
not authorizing this to be done was passed
in 1955, and if there was a cotter way to
do it five long years should have been
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enough tp provide abundant opportunity.
in any event, i gave my word to the people
of Florida, they accepted it, and i am
about the business of making good.
This matter of promises made is a very
important thing to me. You will recall I
had made a pledge that Florida would operate
its affairs and go forward without
increased taxes for state purposes.
Florida is going forward, its governmental
operations are being met, itS'ture progress
is assured, and there has been no increase
in state taxes. I must confess sometimes
to being amazed at those who cry out for
more taxes as we labor to fulfill this
pledge and to make this progress possible
within these self-imposed limitations.
burely there will be abundant opportunities
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in this administration and future
administrations for all those who desire
to increase taxes to their hearts' content.
it seems to me a good thing to try for just
this once through the application of
practical economies and business principles
and self-discipline to finance the expenses
of our state government through the natural
growth of our economy rather than by
increased burdens upon our people. if this
is wrong, the wrong can be corrected by
the inposition of all the taxes future
legislatures and administrations desire;
but if we impose taxes unnecessarily new,
political history is a guarantee that
taxes once imposed will never be removed.
it is a source of great pride to me
that the Legislature was willing to work
within existing sources of revenue, some
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Judt a year g. !at ek it a Iy privilege ti coloe ber yu at your a,-I sooting in Jotnvoitt 'n 'hr to m, .y first publi ,ddr-,' si.t o n Elctin is tou her. !t thut tiho Ir not yet gov.r.or, but I knot full wL that aesonion to the power. of that ofi ,osuld not torn into ratlity 5t, Nrooc and Irbition. I tnd for Florid-; that if thio .orn to be done, thn soppcrt, the leadership, the .ooperotio., th, gsdanc of th -.1,krn of the Fliridt nur noo..nity m. -or ondispensa.lt olcmiot; and tk-t in so cy better t n through the Florida tate fhtber of omonroo coold thrt ele..nt te scored. The political -paigns through MhIh I had then .. rentl col ero bitter ores, and in npito of altt i tn hod bro
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of thn opon the 'o g h the 1Ids n'hd nora ynthu predintoflo lt.1ee. I I ."aorue to nthet tho lvip'r ller o thG.," of lHorid, hoo oey inho-ed he estiLto of rvernes .u jI.ion doll-r over his previon e, itt. -1 rs ps out tht iM JUy7llet.o n o solo tox 'ore clch 2 o r ct l'sL fy tge, eget colleeton' 0000 2-1/4 sor scnt over o y'er'g', 70pt-nbe 7 55l5_U. -no -ere c-I/A per cet 7 0 y 10, hotohor nol anti oov',e71/ orcn .hove o year n%, fo' nto-' oft in t four ''o Ihs p7r10d f vr orcfnt poisto, 12 tih' eoy Ford contioc 00' to 10000 '2. 0nfd' 'otisipofe to tIli, Ue 02a >;emao to ppy oll of 00 77r 'p0air a' Utir
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-11to meet our otherwise unmet capital outlay neod., and perhaps even to build a small reserve for the future. One year ago the ,roblav of higher education ere much in our minded, I raid to you then: "One of the critical needed, if no are to set out on this new adventure, is the minds to guide un. I read wit unbridled envy that in the State of California there reside soe twelve iLobel prize winners in the field of physics and other sciences. If we aculd make the at of the opportunity for leadership afforded os by our geographic and climatic situation e must have the minds, and I cee no place to hope for theo except in our universities", It aould have been a goed thing, of course, if the Legislature could have ennated a propoal for Constitutional
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--12unend.nt which aculd hv ,T : ftr capital outlay In rnitai 2 higher learning the ,tllaonz adalara in the education fund and to b dvrId fro escheat under a new lac pIa'-vn T ,2e last season. The proposal 6i paTm) senate aversholivngly, but dJspto tho existence of 05 pledges 1-r Ph prapal In the House it failed Vh p by n t rore than five minutes on the finol &_j because of the lapse at tiny. ro, therefore, faced aith an maTt noacd, C expresed Intention to provide ;or tt-l need by the Legislaturc, approriat!an il a second priority tatu. oar 'pTi:i Loildings belecheT hy thT Iara. ..a also have, btoauss e1 lopia tT 3 acTiT taken in the 1111 sesoian, stattry
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at horit et. -t cficae lir n p c h.--, d.lt Ut !,A.d to rath6 tot 'in. 2 d oat ,t tC r t thisat thI cr that to .o t uch:rtoted 'ond datterou a iatotr ate .olthfr th. T.y t'-' not utChL!art'rl Ior -i !.ria'netriona isste giv nue cterii 'f(E iliut. Thy hacaua -e to 00 Lt ''dt i:he court. [cningj the iat...: the ,tto t:oted of ldi i .thtillion of ohttg'tini; olocca rootho of thisad..." 'tautd toly At rifllrn, a r/r irth r t itha
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uillhlaritaad Ab.iatdoraClthao inore.ae If l.Ibi y ca:. "' i41It. On of tho grat pea' a i f 'av been abi 'a cll this year hA great pc.: of citizens c7--t.. I'e of individuals from tlrth A th Florida, Eact and 1et. whe a liftniad that tha problem. aT Flcr ic. ar "ama'. within the Ltate nd teat tr 'onc.rn for their constructive eolutin I' as gea.t in .Ilton as It Is In 1Int'l It was under the lead r I' bankers and other huienese cn not e.I1 i t ranks of government that our lonj ra.L[ i cheat law became a reality last yca'. It oathuaugh a citievn -ilittne that at long last a realistic appraah to the problem at abscent litaratura flooding our neveitands was devised, and it is
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Ii to -,t ta ot Il t .d or t ''l -d on 'a-ctmpole sb acnrle tv, a tanI.I It f m Uta ia todly 0mere av o: 1 dyof e t : .l of our t'oo'thoal aytte. 'V : ... 0ei it :rtct olt'.rair oorriitt: i :2.0'h a deoodo -o o hon it look: .: .nti y -f educ t on and formulate' .a vlt the :mnr mm foundation prorta-. It Is a citizen': otuiy grmichat I: aoekinq the moons by aloth surroundino Care Caonaer,.1 o -h : prosoures and best hnaefi:ao: t. row atinulus that the manned 7r o --ht progrer alli gonerote tire in the teat lav year. isnother oroup in meeting to find raye to prevent us from falling prey to the
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po ry ro t c y y ln r -:s: m, lenr 00,j T1is up -i f r 'nto !or A, f v )Ivyr -.d. s t ion to cospc ive ng C L Ieth toote -scol tl b-t iouc .; :. tO 0 IT: tosocil of 10I, n 'vLh .0ny ot yoot oorvo, is filing t vtol r-t -s an rndvpundoeo, self-fbinuonoed r pnving grud tot dfou and pxlnni y uo' t'urrt's neds vbie'h thoseo of us conusrnov -:t :tn tsduy'o dotosods uove ust fh o -c -:h toagt'tfios to 00nc5ive 0r 0 rry -it-b rd Tiho flord evlob.ospount & otont:0, ondo poor ibis by noblen of floe 1-Ct Loojislurn, but tossed, fisnancod and ovporoted exslssissly by the business
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rcr. -ty of -.t U: r f, git o sxpan l cur tatt, El n tlsacly it Ith aarlmr-t ions mill e tho F nustr-l duvlo -rn d iolon of i, carOsl" e t, -issie, : ha-e t-'rd during your o. r t, today. In tourism the Steer"ng 7tc I named early this year Is untin all steonts th,.t vital Florida industry n aornceted effort to mete the 12 cilliperaoc who till visit us this year acnt to come bok eaten and to cell others : -ant tretseont accorded by Flr, ." T out-uf-state guests. They E-r fin-n isn from within their on intya ogrt thrt sill, I believe, .oo em.ulated by the other tourist conscious stoton of the nation aend ahIch is doing much to assure
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n Ad by nuo : I oc n: iad thW p 2l inl ch3 hav hc Cl 0 0 it others oI loi u. to iirve C 0' On r:nee visAl en t 2 It ae for mre of' 0ti iV f., -in. hudrtosoh -nt1rdnp o, 1i ,!a tter, n thin i in -ii C. Thn noop or: tI: at r ad yur ntate 2:a:r vi ne Cf;intcvLCulT l I e o Flr delay c -1ne-er -1A.ld',xa Cr In-: IC is hi SttM ti o
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nor a cornittee chairman or ember of the Florida State Gharbhr of Corarrce -r1 ary Service that van not gladly ad frehy given. inovhere In thia coopration better shown than through the activities a, your Committee an higher Educatian, vhich has been of Immeasurable aid to aS In tie development of asund and businesirke plan for aneting the university building needs we ftae today and doing so without obligating us beyond the capalties naur resources or hindering future growth. Leather of the aepiratIons that I have held for Florida is that na deone rate her ability properly to discharte the functiar and responsibilities asrin-ied to her by the Constitution of the United Ltat.-. I ar conscious of the fact, and fearful af the
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ablo to do, the isuue of 'Icti nalts wan one of the grnat a aue of th0 co,,paign. 1 felt that w'ti'g .her IhiMng thot the people of FVHrf had oid ie ucosing m to be govar ai s that they were tired of Ue"tionar h / tre tired of Lbing divided at againot the other, they tore dotoI tad, io nestills, aith united vigor to 'ttak a.o pren I can tell you no I ..i acre you knu onyay: that tha ftoae ahtch unite Florida are ion-& a tra u1 thta thCt forced ahich have divie d it; shat Ith energier to formerly dlsniratc fihtirin among ouruele have -;t in ltrge dag-e beoo co.notrated upon -a-iina car1n goals; that itilu that is till a Ion" ways to go to ahivtie dtree of union which we deoire Ad a!hich Flida
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fact, tat today the -1ot 0niversa) elixer for every gooerental ill is the toxic boa.rag of Federal H' Por'aps the best aeoar to these pr-oosals is the recognition that the remarkable advances that have heen veo Is te hofld of aivil government provision in the United tatos have been sade by local government, In 15C1 ahon civil government in the United 'tatos cost about ,CS billion, F4 per cent of the expenditures took ptave on the local level, 2Q per cent "-: the state lev and 10 per cent at the Fedacolevel. aut of the h52 billion for general government purpose spent by state and local goveraen s, only '7 billion In grants od shared revenue came iron the Federl government.
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-21Even more remarkable is the fact that between 1550 and 11C0 ahen the direct expenditures of state and local governments Increased by 120 per cent Federal direct expenditures for civil government rose less than 50 per cent. Florida, in site of its probles of Croth, ne a state is keeping pace aith the nation in the provision of local general revenues. In 1510 chen states provided 20 per cant of Local general revenue en an verge, Florida povided 27 per cent. Ulat This .cans, in simplest terns, is that the state and local envernments in the nation, vihen properly administered, can provide the ainoas of growth of the greatet nation in the aorld during a period of ;axiiua econonic struggle and nxcioma population expansion. Florida he the capacity:
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-22to provide that level of service for its people which its owe people desire to provide, leaving properly to the Federal overnment expenditures in the arew of national defense, foreign vffairs, veterans benefits, interest paynonts, commerce, and other civil government services.'Those of us who cry out for the right to discharge properly state functions do not thereby fight the Federal Eeurnvent, but rather strengthen it In those areve properly granted under the Constitution to the Federal hovernnent. The people of Florida should reflect with pride that they still have and should jealously heard reserves for revenue production which are vwct. 1e do not have n incone tax, we do not have a death tax,
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-23our sales tax rate is comparatively lo end tie exeeptleea fre. it are rany, our state taxes upon business are lo, and our hare of the F52 billion ef indebtedness ace osed by the state and local governments is relatively snall. Therels room In ahich the people of Florida and the econoy of Florida can grea, and ie gesernent will always kenp it that ,ay. I alel there were tine noa to explore the yearE a.hesd, but that ust be reserved For scrre future tiare. Let ne end this year and tees rearh er the note with whIeh I bgan then etr -the earerrnt of Fl id is but a tool for the use of its citizens. It han no etrengtlr other than you strength, no creative pyaer that you do not give it. It hen no visdn dislely granted, it its no immunity fro "istake. thiatever
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-24variations there may be from time to time in the graph of progress because of personalities %ho briefly brighten or darken the scene, the long range orend, the significant trend, is set, maintained and realized by the people of Florida, and achieved to a great degree through leadership provided by the public spirited citizens aho arios up the membership of the Florida State Chamber of Commerce. I am proud of the progress Florida has mode by reason of the efforts of her citizens -i an confident there Is no dream ai gas dream, no ambition ae can hold but chat Fluida is capable of realizing.
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deanrna-, as hae en.> f'rtharn than I aaid a. .l n "is. yieu at. Le ha',e 'ahiavai, in in' rae-tiaa the Legislature, etth legislative re-pp-rtinent tad asc--asi-a ri str, ine. I eacid n-t nuiyea' i any Df y1u that th ieluicn ae aa>'s oh asa perfect acintise. it i avos t.e-ry-se hnaaenar, tia~t ae sada ifa ci strea tera rd. I t in easy f.r cr i tic '.ta atiag nachiaca tb paint net i s11u ; ii e.nlly navy Far thea ho ha' heen 'a-de ia the nine itla nf lagialati. 5attn hi-.n vital 1anna fer the p-airas e lalnaere let by :-rgirln -na, tra ad tir aetea, t. tell ya Jr1t. Tiir', asn iatn thet that gaien trt 1-. ae n
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l.giltive rcarti nto ar to-u9 to tip the scrls of H 1t7-r -ovor ch lorge .d ignificnt tAcre t d f the .tete .f norida cre th ion.. There it one story thct poroe.ntaFigrot don't tell: th t chile our P.oplrb or. oving from the forcs to the citiat our counties nd their repreentr-tivoo -, overythere developing o larger con or o for te problem of cities; cod oe or lislator c re increasingly a product f o -1 olols end fine colleges the crharctrirtie ohic hietoriorlly ado roprtent-eof rurtI co0u0iti0s c'thoac to citior are diseppsorino. In the o ter!, ory 00 depod upon evolution, not revoution. ,. year con when rpe~o In you Flsridn ur beect by rreiol tonoicoc hich oolifooted the-eves iN -onduot hnrrfo
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to Floria a .1 !: p.up is a I]i-at under cIah ;h Florida are -co-ei g for thlown solutions to the cyri e p arioe ot of the n.aial cwFl day .I =c nat no coelih! for this imprsasd cle; reflect that avery act i b," admnsltratls hahesn a'c in ahlah peplc, uner et nirno..tann -sn a c t solution to the pri' a year non there ha. nn physical atrife and eU.1 harmful ca fsmnotr.a tin.. marked or calendar nd ch bring diatreac te ow .rid all oor the nation. toclas n cleic. .1-0 ea i he C ficl 'Idhat fr
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it ",a. jost tol Florida o the l ati critiiot b-c-s of Vth .. i nterstt to hiihiay progr in 41 Allion of F uderal 1udO ario Itate ,S ithih.ldi boou. the Today toot oritilais ii cent of .ooier dis .. cr. :t Publi no-ds too os. ." t stondint tefors tho otto eyes of tho sotior i ,r, Gos it oulgt to bt. I, -our right-ity pA our toticy dcpat'ot, :i inspotiao prtoaCoturo 0. 2 tote trn ttio to r:0 for higlhayi Ia Flard loyotd vco '.1t 'diot' dono.
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Late at the K r o wt~ .i!'-~ n.: at third eflina to. yt' of the tarit,> E td Ir of Flarida that it it au f would ro it. I tan e a. P3 doo.. Inaoitblty inrthere are rove interasto ai ivorW: catinfied. Ira nt at inf if their legitmato lntoroata ra r tay ,' be u-bjogated to tha reta? K the -raater noahor. Th cry t-ht the turnp ik S a -: a baand inaced in the tay I a a -, t or Icrimps not -ae tay i. a -. oraisa inee -hat t cculd sa t v-ht -I:h. Act authorizing r t' a -t a1a, -In tCrr, ad if thrc.ita do it five tact tatart ht'
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enug p prod bndn ii vn, cvent, 'tie y1;r of Fljotld -, te cetd "Lout the tcaine, -f rVki T'His 'rtter 'tirmie hapot t thing to hit T had mi '3 pldg tht a its afar 'ond I' 'it'r ototl'oria t. ltd ng owad a stred, -Cd VO&Oha b < t x it doetxsnev ao ti 0 th1n thoo so-I'are!' th oct111
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in this rdciniistVo 1'. odisinistrotioss tor Cll t-e ade to increase taxnn to thir It .e.nn to is a oo tin this none through Hto !,ito I prnntiiiol ooonooios aot boo nos'prine and neI-discple ihip of our htote government tishc gr-oth ,f our -mons.y n-thn t Increased burden Up. o .I Is wrens, th or.no cot r, the iositioo 0f '21 tho i tor' Cotsr 1eginstors sod oinsaK i'.deir but if on i.soo ''i'0 'o'' il political hint'ry is -" t tax0000 l."C isa iill.rC It is e-. "O r that th, Lagist a : within ooiati'a sri
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