10 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

Modern Management that has been set up in the budget. But I would
say, broadly, the area of transportation, the area of human relations,
the area of pollution, these would be three that occur to me right off
the bat. There may be other groupings that are possible.

Q. Mr. Agnew, is this situation flexible at this point because of the
difficulty in obtaining the right people to head these?

A. Fortunately, no. I have not asked anyone to take one of these
positions who has not accepted, as yet. So that is not the reason they
haven't been filled. With jobs of this type and this responsibility, I
simply want to be sure I get the most qualified people I can find, and
I want to be sure I have had an opportunity to reflect and consider all
possible candidates before I make the offer.

Q. How about your two recent running mates, Mr. Doub and Mr.
Bresler? Have you spoken to either of these gentlemen about a posi-
tion?

A. I'm sure they will each be offered a position somewhere in the
administration. This does not mean on the personal staff, necessarily.
I think they are both capable individuals and I think they will both
be serving somewhere within my administration.

Q. Governor Agnew, Mayor McKeldin yesterday repeated his deter-
mination to keep a 1 percent earnings tax, or something like it, in

the City.

A. Would you define what something like it is?

Q. He intends it to be much the same as now exists.

A. My personal feeling is that a tax on income imposed at the point
of employment is a bad tax. It doesn't relate to services, properly. I
believe that the income tax is a much better tax than the earnings
tax. I'm not sympathetic to the arguments advanced in support of
earnings taxes. I never have been, and I hope to see us not have an
earnings tax.

Q. The Post carried a story this morning that it cost something like
$200, 000 to collect $7 million worth of earnings taxes in Montgomery
County. Do you feel that the earnings tax has been pretty much of a
failure as an efficient revenue raiser?

A. Well Montgomery, of course, has an income tax that is collected
locally, but it is a tax at the point of residence. I think it is ridiculous
to duplicate the costs of collecting a tax locally when the machinery
exists at the state level.