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Examples Of Mandate Law

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Week Three: Laws, Regulations & Policies

Post by Day 4 an example of mandate law that has had a significant impact on state or local governments. First, describe the mandate law you selected. Next, describe the effects of the mandate law, such as the ACA, on the fiscal and budgetary operations of the state or local governments. In your analysis, specify whether the impact is positive or negative and explain why.
Introduction
For this week’s discussion, I looked no further than the Minnesota State Legislative Auditor’s Report # 00-01 “Program Evaluation Report: State Mandates on Local Governments” (Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor, 2000). The report, which comes out of response to a survey of 654 local government officials, from …show more content…

Officials who responded stated that they thought levy limits were a hindrance to good management, and without the levy limits, taxes may increase because of the demand on local services, and that in planning for economic development, they would not have to rely as much on borrowing (2000).
Accountability without levy limits was offered by respondents through the election process, and truth-in-taxation, although interestingly enough, truth-in-taxation was the mandate that earned the second highest amount of responses in the report (Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor, 2000).
While there are advantages to the mandate, such as protection for the taxpayer and an assurance that property tax relief is felt by all property tax payers, many are wary that the limits now could lead to higher property taxes in the future (Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor, 2000).
The impact that the communities feel from this mandate is a mixed bag of positive and negative. Property tax relief is welcomed by all for sure, but the increased demand on local services and the smaller pool of funds to serve those demands is not. …show more content…

Cooperative Federalism is the offspring of necessity, in response to the great depression, built upon the notion that there are responsibilities at each level of government, or to quote Cliff’s Notes who offers the most fitting description, when it states that “there are many areas in which their responsibilities overlap” and by example it is offered that “drug enforcement involves federal agents, state troopers, and local police” (Cliffsnotes.com, 2016). This is I believe more the state of our Federalist government today, rather than the one described by Mr.

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