People wonder why the State government makes laws that are against what the local want and “the answer is money.” (White) Just from the natural resource industries the states representatives receive “3.8 million” (White) which would be an average of 25,000 per person and that is why they made a law that local cities cannot ban fracking from the cities. Money is the main reason that the state makes laws for industries rather than listen …show more content…
The local should have more control in their power because when the state does not like what they do all they have to do is get a bill passed that prevents the locals bill to go into effect. The local government is important because those are the bills getting passed for the people who live those certain cities and they want the changes to happen but sometimes the state does not want the something since it could affect them negatively by losing some money. The state government has the final say on all the bills because they choose if they want to go against it.
I think that it is hypocritical for the state government to impose its will on the policies of the local because they say that they want the best for the people but when they vote for something they go against some of them even though that is what the people want. An example of a problem that the state passed a bill against was the fracking in Texas. Fracking was causing many earthquakes in Texas and some of the local governments decided to ban it from the cities but then the state government passed a bill that did not allowed fracking to get banned. …show more content…
2 “Liberty Trumps Local Control, by Matt Rinaldi.” TribTalk, 12 Mar. 3 2015, www.tribtalk.org/2015/03/12/liberty-trumps-local-control/. Accessed 4 May 2017.
White, Kiaba. 1 “Oil and Gas Lobby Cashes In, Kills Local Control.” TexasVox: 4 The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas, 5 May 2015, www.texasvox.org/oil-and-gas-lobby-cashes-in-kills-local-control/. Accessed