The next-door township just got a 200K grant from the feds to update police services. It’s a rich township. It doesn’t need the money. In fact, it runs an excellent EMS, for which I volunteer, on donations - not on taxes at all.
The more local the money, the more frugal the spending. Durned if I want to pay for a Maple Syrup Museum in Vermont, or a road in Georgia, and I don’t want to pay for the next town’s police, either.
Mrs VS
“The next-door township just got a 200K grant from the feds to update police services. It’s a rich township. It doesn’t need the money.”
Yea, so the local leaders are now bragging that the $200K “did not cost the local taxpayers anything” - fiction that it is.
The idiot locals must think that every other state does NOT contain zillions of local police forces, each of which are claiming their $200K. The idiot locals ignore the fact the sum and substance of it all is that, in essence, the residents of each locality are paying $200K more in federal taxes - in one form or another - in order for the federal treasury to have $200K to give to all of them. Fools.
If they had brains, they’d elect people who kept more of their hard-earned money in their local pockets, whereby they would only give the police another $200k when they thought the public priority and their willingness to pay for it were in agreement. But they are fools.
It’s the same thing as GOP Senator Ted Stevens with his $250 million dollar bridge to nowhere. If the people of Alaska absolutely wanted, needed and demanded that bridge, their state oil revenues could have paid for it.