31.   Most federal revenue comes from taxing personal earnings and corporate profits, both of which are reduced when economic growth falters.

32.   Next week Fernandez is expected to unveil new proposals to cut state spending and raise federal revenue to enable the government to reduce the budget deficit.

33.   Other federal revenue problems are also expected to hurt the job market.

34.   Rich folk worried about a federal revenue shortfall can act on their concerns.

35.   Sources of federal revenue are critical as President Clinton and the Republican-led Congress work on an agreement to balance the federal budget.

36.   Some lawmakers favor spending most of the money in coastal states, where offshore drilling for oil and gas produce the federal revenue to pay for land conservation.

37.   Such a provision would mandate an automatic refund to taxpayers if federal revenue grows faster than some economic measure such as inflation or personal income.

38.   That means teaching hospitals, research universities and all the lesser institutions that were hooked up to the federal revenue stream during the Cold War years.

39.   The biggest damage to federal revenues would come just as the baby boomers begin to retire, driving up the costs of Social Security and Medicare.

40.   The chief budget-busters are proposed tax cuts that would greatly reduce federal revenues and a constitutional amendment to require a balanced federal budget.