Down The Sewer Pipe – Politically Speaking

It is at about this time that we mention a bit more about the demands of other governments as it relates to governance.  Governance as we all know is how elected officials and the bureaucracy do what it is that they do either to the pleasure or determent of the people that they govern.

Counties generally demand that towns supply the county a central place of commerce as well as a gathering place of the population and tax revenue.  State governments generally demand of counties that they police their populations, provide roads, libraries, and environmental services.  The Federal government demands states provide for commerce in their state as relates to tax revenue as well as other demands for environment, wages schools and such. 

At no time are monies shared so when the Federal government adjusts their clean water standard the local government must pay for compliance up from.  Neither the State nor the counties will offer a dime for the mandates that they force off onto others.  Yet the county population uses the services of the town the county population assumes that when they purchase something the cost of flushing the toilet or cleaning up there upchuck off the sidewalk is paid for.

This demand by other governments pushes up the cost of living to the point where roads do not become paved because the local’s money is going elsewhere.  The only way to get past this is for the citizens of the United States of America to demand a “cease and desist” for unfounded mandates because good governance demands nothing less.

Sherman