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Jack Kingston: “I heard a statistic this morning I thought that was interesting. There are 39,000 municipalities in this great country…”

On the recordFebruary 1, 1995
I heard a statistic this morning I thought that was interesting. There are 39,000 municipalities in this great country of ours. Eighty percent of them are populations below 10,000, and 48 percent have populations below 1,000. We sit up here in our inside-the-beltway ivory tower mandating all these ridiculous programs on them. They do not have the money to pay for them. They do not have the personnel. Inevitably they have to turn around and raise the taxes on all the constituents back home.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Discussing the challenges faced by small municipalities due to federal mandates.

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