The local government representatives at the meeting cried poor and argued that they should be allowed to levy a broader array of taxes. The central government, meanwhile, similarly pled that it lacked resources, explaining that increasing local government's share of centrally allocated tax revenues would simply shift local debt to the central government.
會中地方政府一致叫窮，力爭擴大地方政府的稅源；中央政府這邊也同樣拮据，表示若擴大統籌分配稅款，將使中央財政短差擴大、負債上升。