In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n
The centralized control, directly or indirectly via<\/em> odorous mandates and requirements, of local programs and affairs by the Federal government by means of the Federal purse-strings has been a longstanding complaint by conservatives, though some on the right look at it as a useful cudgel they might use if they were ever to gain power. Let us look back when this very question of centralized diktat vs<\/em>. not-as-unconservative block grant revenue sharing<\/a> was raised by William F. Buckley, Jr. with Wilbur D. Mills, Richard Beer, Dick Polman, and Margaret Miljavic.<\/p>\n