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BUDGET SEPARATION <br /> <br />people endeavor to address the following injustice: <br /> <br /> Our state and federal lawmakers have made a practice of passing laws and mandates <br />which require expenditure of revenues for compliance, but which have no provision for <br />raising the necessary revenues. The legislators, while reaping accolades for enacting laws <br />deemed praiseworthy only by narrow special interests, have sought to avoid being held <br />accountable by the citizens, and have instead reduced the County Comml.qsioners to the rank <br />of tax collector. Tlfts EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY WITHOUT I~S?ONSIBILITY is made <br />even more egregious and offensive by their practice ofholdlng themselves above and exempt <br />from the very laws they have them.qelves enacted. <br /> <br /> There can be no question that this practice is LrNREASONABLE, IRRESPONSIBLE, <br />UNJUST, A_ND A BLATANT ABUSE OF POWER. <br /> <br /> The counties, having failed in every effort to end this injustice by direct appeal to the <br />legislators, resort therefore to enactment of this simple co~ective measure. One which seeks <br />to restore the proper balance of authority, responsibility, and accountability. <br /> <br /> <br />