It's never been more obvious in OH. All of those spending cuts Kasich brags about were money local communities need to function. Now there's that windfall tax coming in from Amazon purchases now being taxed because the geniuses in Columbus thought it was good for the state to have an Amazon facility open in OH.
Try to get a straight answer out of a local state rep about why that windfall isn't going per capita to communities. It's just more money to fill their buddies pockets.
Exactly, but I have direct experience in local small government and there’s a ton of waste. You could cut 50% and have a better functioning municipality. Plus, the real costs are in pensions.
There’s almost one pensioner per every government employee in Illinois. So we’re paying for one ghost payroller for every government employee and we don’t even need every government employee.
The terrible secret of government is they don’t work and they don’t work hard. 20% of any department does all the work.