House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills has called the revenue-sharing plan a "trap" that "could become a massive weapon against the independence of state and local government." The plan, said Mills, "goes in the direction of centralized government."
This in no way discredits the opinion, but a few years after this book was written, Mills would step down from the Ways and Means Committee due to multiple scandals involving drunk Mills and Argentinian stripper Fanne Foxe, including once holding a drunken press conference from her dressing room.
