First, having someone else pick up three-quarters of the cost does not incent state and local governments to necessarily spend these funds wisely.
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Local governments not only never tell the public why the lands are sold out and what the lands will be used for, but also the public is forced to sign agreements to keep quiet about the violent evictions.
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Then the recession hits, which means less money is coming in but more money is going out in terms of helping the unemployed or helping states and local governments not lay off teachers and firefighters and so on.
Some lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans, said existing funds to state and local governments is not being delivered fast enough.
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But there is concern among local governments that not everyone is going to be served by high-speed fiber-optic networks.
Most state and local governments are not allowed to borrow to cover shortfalls.
Most local governments prefer not to hand them out, because to do so would commit them to providing the holder with the full range of welfare benefits.
With the economy growing at 4.5% real, jobs would have been plentiful, unemployment costs would have been low, and state and local governments would not have needed bailouts.
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The bottom line is that state and local governments may not regulate or tax non-residents in a manner that is unfavorable relative to how residents are regulated or taxed.
This does not solve the problem because this is an unfunded mandate for local governments and reduces their resources for traditional community law enforcement protection, which is not acceptable.
Local governments, which were not permitted to borrow, did so with gusto by resorting to various subterfuges.
Beijing and its provincial and local governments have also agreed not to discriminate against foreign firms in a procurement deals.
For example, many mining corporations operate in countries where the rule of law is not applied in a fair way by local governments.
Across the South, African Americans were systematically disenfranchised and subject to political violence condoned, if not actively supported, by local power structures and state governments.
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Remember, these tax rates do not include property taxes, nor additional sales taxes imposed by local governments, sin taxes, and other fees used to raise revenue by state and local governments.
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Local governments across the country either scuttled or chose not to offer residential PACE programs after the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) ruled, in July 2010, it would not underwrite mortgages on homes with PACE liens.
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So tackling this epidemic will take far more aggressive approaches than we've seen in the past -- not only from our federal government, but also state and local governments, from local community organizations, and from places of worship.
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By one interpretation, this means that local governments should be responsible only for administrative decisions, not policy.
There is a role for the Department of Transportation, as I understand it, and the Army Corps of Engineers, but most of the permitting here is -- because it does not cross an international border -- is done by local and state governments.
Private developers will not build low-cost housing in the absence of subsidies, and local governments are generally in a precarious financial condition.
Businessmen give America its highest ranking, 10th place, for decentralized planning, which means they think that state and local governments control most important decisions pertaining to their businesses, not the federal government.
Local governments are likely to suffer budget cuts by 2010, if not next year.
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The old policy was tolerable since local governments could also usually dissuade power companies from disconnecting factories that could not pay their bills.
School districts and local governments say they are already consolidating and merging, but that's not enough.
In recent years local governments have taken on an enormous amount of new debt, which does not seem to be financing much new investment.
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Local governments have gotten into the bad habit of condemning private property--not for "public use, " such as building highways or schools, but for thebenefit of private developers.
Farmers were frequently not paid the full world price for their crops, because governments were determined to keep local prices low in order to relieve hard-pressed consumers.
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