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is, on grounds it is “environmental.”
BUT Fauquier is not alone. Prince William has named one of its bureaucrats to act as a full-time seeker of federal grants. And in Loudoun, local governments have been presented a proposal that they hire a sort of grant broker, paying him a percentage based on the number of federal dollars gathered. Everybody wants to get in on the grab—complaining all the time about how high federal taxes are and how stingy the state is.
Frankly, we’d all be a lot better off if a great many of those federal grant programs dried up. Many of them do little more than establish new bureaucracies anyway; they don’t actually do anything for anybody. If these things were curtailed, then maybe localities would be more careful about living within their means.
Maybe even a lot of boondoggling, make-work bureaucratic paper-shifting could be dispensed with, and maybe we’d have a lot less local officials justifying outrageous grabs for the public purse strings on the grounds that if they don’t get it, somebody else will.
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