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Originally Posted by BOfH
...funding which many states have come to rely on and include de facto in the state budget, and programs which most people take for granted, have essentially free reign in most state's politics.
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The states have themselves to blame; look at the heat a state takes (pick a program) when it correctly ponies up & says, "we don't want to play because of the strings attached."
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Originally Posted by BOfH
This vicious cycle only increases the state's dependency on Federal funding, more so as these social programs are pushed by liberal state and federal governments.
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Precisely; we are seeing that in Wisconsin RIGHT NOW on a smaller level. Those municipalities who are looking at not being tied to the noose of a monopolistic health insurer for teachers and see
opportunity are seeing surpluses, no layoffs, and no crocodile tears about wanting to increase property taxes - even though their officials ran on the opposite. Life is better; they were liberated, quite literally.
Those still whining who, only 1 year hence, want a mulligan and support the recall of the current Governor have simply not gotten past their hysteria, OR, they will never change because they are tied to the HUGE sums of money that came with being part of that extortionist insurer of the High Church of Academia.
It is about being weaned off the teat.