State Law Matters

The State Legislature is capable of protecting citizens from the excesses of the federal government and abuse from local government. Some attempt to do this, some don’t.

Georgia Law has a stealthy impact on cities and counties. It may impose wrong-headed federal law or wrong-headed State law that imposes specifications and mandates activities with recordkeeping requirements for businesses and other governmental entities like cities, counties and authorities. 

The rules and requirements imposed by state law are frequently driven by whatever the federal government is over-involved in like healthcare (Obamacare), education (Common Core), agriculture (EPA, FDA), Energy (Green) and environmental overreach (EPA, FDA, Interior, Commerce. 

Many federal laws are based on bad science.  How many voters believe that carbon is a pollutant ? How many believe carbon can produce global warming ? How many believe that we are in a dangerous period of global warming ?  How many voters believe we should increase our energy costs five-fold because of this hoax ? 

State Legislators should question the science that prompted federal laws and regulations to be passed and written and stop legislation based on bad information.

We are in a period of time where the federal government is imposing massive amounts of over-regulation and offering hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grant funds as bribes to States and municipalities for mal-investments in “cookie cutter” implementation of low priority infrastructure like bike-lanes, trails, transit villages, over-expensive passenger train public transit, tourist novelties like streetcars, more parks (green space),  Every city and county in the U.S. has a website where you can see that everybody is getting bike lanes, etc.  This is top-down central planning by the federal government that is voluntarily enabled by State law.

The millions of dollars spent on city logos, mottos, tourist promotion, long-term Master Plans based on bogus population projections and spending plans based on projected revenue makes you feel like you fell down the rabbit hole.  In the meantime, your streets and storm sewers rot because your State gave federal grant bribes to municipalities to squander their budgets on cookie cutter planning, “economic development” and fluff.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader