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To: SierraWasp
I've found that one way control is centralized is the tactic of "bringing our rules into compliance with state or federal guidelines". That is the reasoning I hear for some of the resolutions or actions taken in county government on a wide range of issues. Also, in Tennessee, the budget mess is hanging over the county's heads right now with the possiblilty of the Legislature withholding state shared revenue...money is always the best way of "control"...
15 posted on 11/11/2001 12:42:43 PM PST by Brian Mosely
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To: Brian Mosely; Carry_Okie; snopercod; Dog Gone; Not gonna take it anymore; Travis McGee...
"Also, in Tennessee, the budget mess is hanging over the county's heads right now with the possiblilty of the Legislature withholding state shared revenue...money is always the best way of "control"..."

Over the last decade, this already has happened in CA. Even though Prop 13 (the great CA tax revolt of the mid '70's) capped property taxes, in the '90's the State stole our meager, already limited resources while passing numerous unfunded mandates on counties in the meantime.

It's no wonder they like the USSR style of concentrating power in the Crapitol. Could you imagine being a lobbyist and having to lobby the board of Commissioners in each of the 58 counties in CA to get 3 out of 5 votes to get something adopted uniformaly Statewide?

Yet it's no wonder we were interested in "County Supremacy" and "Devolution of Power!" Unfortunately, OKC just stopped the whole movement, right in it's tracks. I went to a meeting regarding the "Home Rule" movement at the University of CA at Davis, attended by Fed, State and Local elected and appointed government types who were terrified out of their friggen minds over these government shrinking movements, trying desperately to smear them as Militia, Freemen and militant conservative extremist, even terrorist idealogs.

I had to remind them that I supported some of these ideas and that people that voted for me did too. But, I would never support people that took the law in their own hands, only those who used politics, as politics is how we change things without killing each other in this great land.

16 posted on 11/11/2001 6:55:06 PM PST by SierraWasp
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