Originally Posted by
Jon_Doh
Actually the blame goes to the Bush Administration not Obama. After years of of the Bush Administration pushing Federal programs down to the state and local level without providing any funding to pay for them combined with the collapse in the real estate market, which has lowered property values and thereby tax revenues local governments are broke and hurting. They are looking to ticket fines as a revenue source. It's nothing more than an indiscriminate tax on the backs of drivers. But neither Bush or Obama could order more local cops on the road as that lies within the domain of local government under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution. It's a matter of economics and searching for quick sources of revenue and nothing more.
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