Chief among the concerns of locals, though, is that the state would hand over responsibility without sufficient resources to pay for them.
Gee, I wonder why they'd think that?
Again
1 posted on
01/05/2011 7:42:48 AM PST by
SmithL
To: SmithL
I guess Moonbeam is going to pay for it out of his own pocket....
2 posted on
01/05/2011 7:44:17 AM PST by
EagleUSA
To: SmithL
It’s like watching a WWII newsreal of some Kamikazee plane taking flak and spirling into the ocean. You know tere’s a living human inside that thing, but you still enjoy seeing them auger in.
3 posted on
01/05/2011 7:50:26 AM PST by
DaxtonBrown
(HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
To: SmithL
move the responsibility to others, keep the money. Make people pay more to someone else.
Browns plan.
4 posted on
01/05/2011 7:50:39 AM PST by
edcoil
(Democrat's and vampires should never be invited in your home.)
To: SmithL
“Unfunded mandates”
A page from the FedGov’s fav playbook.
7 posted on
01/05/2011 7:52:17 AM PST by
ASOC
(What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
To: SmithL
He also attempted to allay the fears of some local officials that the state could pass off duties without providing sufficient means to pay for them. Ha ha ha haaaaaa!
C'mon, Daddy-O, you can trust me.
8 posted on
01/05/2011 7:52:22 AM PST by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: SmithL
LOL. Notice Brown and the writer both collaborate to ignore the 800 lb budget gorilla in the room.
Unless he plans a sneak attack on public employee unions he has already failed.
9 posted on
01/05/2011 7:52:37 AM PST by
skeeter
To: SmithL
"We're going to shift funding to the local level, we're going to make sure there's enough responsibility and discretion to use the money in the wisest possible ways," "There will be controversies." I predict the Brown-outs will begin in March.
Mark this date and time. I was the first to call it.
10 posted on
01/05/2011 7:54:38 AM PST by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: SmithL
"shift the responsibility for providing some services from the state to BANKRUPT counties and cities."
11 posted on
01/05/2011 7:54:41 AM PST by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: SmithL
This is great. “Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” is usually a metaphor, but not this time. If the bankrupt State shifts responsibilities to bankrupt local governments, where does the fiscal buoyancy needed to keep the whole enterprise afloat come from, even if it happens?
12 posted on
01/05/2011 8:15:35 AM PST by
Old North State
(Don't blame me, I voted for Pedro)
To: SmithL
Then this bald headed stooge should should cut state taxes to make up for the localities having to (presumably) raise taxes pay for these new burdens
What Jerry Brown should really do to revive California’s economy is cut off all funding to the California Air Resources Board. Tell those idiots to go get hamburger flipper jobs. And get the Central Valley irrigation water turned on full blast.
13 posted on
01/05/2011 8:23:21 AM PST by
dennisw
(- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
To: SmithL
Just like states send most of their money to the Feds, so do counties send most of their money to the states. The round about needs to stop. Counties should keep their monies and watch the states scream.
14 posted on
01/05/2011 8:31:42 AM PST by
sheana
To: SmithL
Here come the local property tax elections.
15 posted on
01/05/2011 8:44:24 AM PST by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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