Secession Petitions, the Election, and the News.

[Mavfin]

I just look at the presence of the petitions as highlighting the current issues over states' rights vs federal rights.

I doubt that any of them are serious about actual secession, but they don't like unfunded mandates being forced on them, either, and putting those up almost guarantees publicity.

Would funding help? I don't hear much clamor for tax hikes, even from those supposedly concerned about the deficit...

-Jester

Well, it's a federal program being pushed down to the states, w/o the federal government necessarily supplying the money it's going to cost to implement. That's the issue the states are having, once you clear away all the political us vs them talk. They're being told "do this and pay for X amount of it, too", w/o being consulted, really.