Georgia’s
Price of Freedom is about $21 billion a year that the State of Georgia receives
from the federal government in Grants to States. In addition, Georgia will raise spend another
$21.8 billion in 2016 through Georgia Income Tax, Sales Tax and other
taxes.
The
federal money Georgia receives each year is for federal programs and include
Education, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Welfare, Housing Assistance, and other
programs, but also include Grants to Universities, Cities and Counties. The federal grants all have strings attached
and includes cost sharing. For example,
the $2 billion a year for Education requires that Georgia adopt Common Core and
federal political indoctrination curriculum requirements.
The easy
way to get rid of federal interference is to not take the money. City Councils and County Commissions who
refuse to apply for HUD grants may avoid having their zoning codes
shredded. States would need to allow
cost reduction in education, healthcare and government’s footprint, but a lot
of this would be reductions in federal compliance costs. The rest of the cost reduction could come
from more State deregulation, ending price gouging and the use of current
technologies.
Ending
Transportation Grants would result in lower prices for road work, but public
transportation would need to adjust to “break-even” strategies like privatizing
bus service. Fluff and mal-investments
like bike-lanes and “economic development” subsidies for developers would
end.
School
Boards would need to stop using Bonds to save interest costs that result in
doubled costs. Education would be free
from mandates to do political indoctrination and Common Core. Students would be
responsible for their own education. Healthcare would become more
“home-based”. Illegal immigrants would
be dropped from most tax funded welfare and schooling benefits.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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