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Texas Republican Party Platform Thread 142 (Unfunded Mandates)
Brown County GOP Website ^ | June, 2002 | Republican Party of Texas

Posted on 03/14/2003 5:10:43 AM PST by Bigun

The Republican Party of Texas Platform has been MUCH in the news of late because it is a CONSERVATIVE document and, as such, VERY controversial. I thought it would be an instructive exercise, for those of us who wish to do so here, to go through it plank by plank and see where we stand on these issues. Pursuant to that, I will post ONE plank of the Platform, every few days and anyone who wishes to can state their views as to that particular part of the platform.

Today, under the heading Strengthening The Economy Of Texas And America we find the following plank :

Unfunded Mandates - The Party opposes all unfunded mandates by the federal and state governments. The effect of mandating services without funding is a tax increase for local government.

(Excerpt) Read more at browncountytexasrepublicanparty.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: party; planks; platform; republican; texas
I have decided to score myself by assigning a score of between 0 and 10 points to each of the planks! 10 means I agree with EVERYTHING in it. 0 means I agree with NOTHING in it.

10 more points brings my running score to this point to 1286 of a possible 1420.

1 posted on 03/14/2003 5:10:44 AM PST by Bigun
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P I N G ! ! !

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2 posted on 03/14/2003 5:12:09 AM PST by Bigun
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To: Bigun
This one sounds familiar. My precinct submitted a version of this plank.

10 points. No argument from me.

1198/1420 (0.844).
3 posted on 03/14/2003 6:15:18 AM PST by PetroniDE (Zimmerman Telegram (1917) - Pearl Harbor (1941) - WTC (2001) - NEVER AGAIN...)
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