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in some quarters that the finances of the State, or of a
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government, is an integral port of the job of the Chief
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Executive; that it is his job to recommend sources of
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revenues and supervise the collection of those revenues,
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as for example, we have in the Federal government, where
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the President's obligations are these, and it is there-
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fore felt that, to the extent that you have another, a
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constitutional officer who takes a part of these duties,
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you are diluting by that much the duties and powers of
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the Chief Executive of the State. I take it that is
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exactly what you are advocating?
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MR. GOLDSTEIN: Well, it has worked . In other
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words, we take the most recent times, when Maryland
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reaches its greatest pinnacle of growth. You can start
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in the last ten years, start in '58, or start back in
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1922, and each year our budget has grown. The population
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has grown. Our greatest population growth in Maryland
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has been since 1950, when we had approximately 2,300,000
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people in Maryland. This morning we have approximately
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3,650,000 people. We are growing by 125,000 a year right
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now. Most of that growth is in your two big urban areas,
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