Tom Carper: “I never liked it when the Federal Government came in and tried to tell us in Delaware we had to spend money for some…”

“I never liked it when the Federal Government came in and tried to tell us in Delaware we had to spend money for some purpose but never provided the revenues to pay for that expenditure. Similarly, I never liked it when the Federal Government came in and unilaterally reduced our revenue base for programs we needed in our State to educate our kids, to provide health care, child care, environmental protection, and transportation. I never liked it when the Federal Government came in and tried to undercut our ability to raise revenues for those purposes and never provided an offset to make up the difference in the revenue that was taken away by the Federal action. We called on the Federal Government to stop placing unfunded mandates on State and local governments.”