[Cicero]

Right. But it doesn't help to send the tax dollars first up to Washington and then back down to the states--after taking a bureaucratic slice out of them.

Better to cut federal taxes and let the states and localities raise the money if they need it.

The best thing Bush could do for the states would be to cut taxes, cut spending, and return more responsibilities to the governmental levels that are closer to the problems.

[Cicero]

Plus, the federal government could help by cutting federal mandates. Higher levels of government have gotten into the habit that they know better than the locals what's good for them. Clinton was responsible for a lot of new mandates, but Republicans share the blame.

[RnMomof7]

Better to cut federal taxes and let the states and localities raise the money if they need it.
Plus, the federal government could help by cutting federal mandates. Higher levels of government have gotten into the habit that they know better than the locals what's good for them. Clinton was responsible for a lot of new mandates, but Republicans share the blame.

And this is the issue..first the states are already over extended much of it by UNFUNDED federal mandates..often the ones that were funded had the funds cut..

But just as the state budgets have alot of waste so does the federal . We are paying for so much junk science and governmental pay offs to contractors it is a sin

The problem is the feds cut the funding but not the federal taxes ...so the state has to raise taxes for things that we are still being taxed for at the federal level..The states can not continue to raise taxes and drive businesses away (ask NY about that) but the loss of funds for mandated spending makes it necessary to get money from somewhere

Look at your phone bill or cable bill or electric bill.Look at the fees..we pay 40 or 50 dollars a month on them ...

Washington need to remove all state mandates and allow states to determine for themselves what programs they want to have..there should be no more federal money going to States..(look at the big dig)

Cut all the state money out of the federal budget and them cut the taxes that funded them..then let the state raise the state taxes as they need it for the programs that THEY want, not the one the Feds want..allow the "free market" to work in states ..

[JusticeLives]

"Better to cut federal taxes and let the states and localities raise the money if they need it."

Your sane, reasonable, logic solution will never fly with politicians; however, it *would* with public servants.
That is, if we still have public servants, or were they outlawed..? I can't remember...