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Republicans in Congress seem to be against helping state and local government’s budgets…

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You’d think this was just against Blue States like the 2017 tax cut/giveback….

It actually isn’t…

Due to the virus and the ailing economy?

Across the country in Blue and Red states their is more red ink on budget readout’s in their computers…

This seems like politics of starving the very people that vote to give these people in Congress their jobs…

Sure the Republicans CAN blame the suffering on Biden and the Democrats come 2022’s midterms …

But why endanger their own back home?

State and local officials have pleaded for more federal assistance for months as the Covid-19 pandemic drags on, but Congress appears to be tuning them out.

It’s looking less and less likely that the coronavirus relief package being hammered out on Capitol Hill will contain aid for states. Democrats are backing away from their insistence that the deal include $160 billion for state, local and tribal governments — which was already a far cry from the nearly $1 trillion in assistance allocated in the stimulus bill passed by the House Democrats earlier this year.
This comes as state and local governments are staring at budget shortfalls of between $172 billion and $308 billion over the next year and a half, according to an updated estimate by Moody’s Analytics released Thursday. And that’s assuming states drain the $72 billion in their reserve accounts.
While the new figure is less than Moody’s Analytics had projected in September, it’s still concerning, said Dan White, director of public sector research.
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“There is a lot of money that’s going to have to come from somewhere to plug these state and local budget holes,” White said. “The question is where does it come from? Does it come from the federal government issuing debt and paying this over a long period of time with very low interest rates? Or does it come from state and local taxpayers immediately?”
White is already fielding questions from states on how they can raise revenue without damaging their economies. That’s because they, along with localities, have already made cuts….

Note….

Republicans did NOT have the same mindset for the last 4 years in BIG spending and tax cuts….

ALL the sudden things are different with a New Democratic President?

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