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There are several hundred municipal mandates in Connecticut. Many of these are partially funded or unfunded and are problematic and unfair because they create financial burdens that cost taxpayers money. Cities and towns have only two ways to pay for these mandates: increase taxes and fees or cut programs and services.

Peter Gioia
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The federal bill is a combination of cuts and what we believe are unfunded mandates, and it's the unfunded mandates that may generate the biggest cuts to the states.

Bruce Fuller
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This is the mother of all unfunded mandates.

Terry W. Hartle
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Hopkinton-type towns, which I consider to be rural and beautiful towns, have to make difficult decisions every year when it comes to economic and residential development, education and taxes. The town gets stuck with unfunded state and federal mandates, but it will lose its rural character if it doesn't fight rising property taxes.

Steve Laffey
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These unfunded liabilities are not a big problem. We have 40 or 50 years to recoup the money through investments. A person who owes $400,000 on a mortgage wouldn't say, 'Oh, my God, we're doomed,' because they know they have 30 years to pay it off.

Frederick Nesbitt
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They basically passed a very expensive, completely unfunded mandate. But in the end, someone will pay for it.

Thomas Schatz
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It is bad news for taxpayers, who might have to cover part of the unfunded pension costs for Northwest and Delta employees.

John Spratt
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Ford would welcome the cash for liquidity purposes, to help provide for large unfunded pension liabilities and for research and development.

David Healy
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The state gives us unfunded mandates and that's a big concern right now. We're capped out at $1.50 per $100 property evaluation. So the only way we can grow our fiscal resources is either if appraisals go up, or if there's new developments. Right now, when we grow a little bit, we lose more money.

Sharon Fields
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As we face coming challenges like possible base closures and unfunded federal mandates that drain our budget and loss of vital services, we must assure our quality of life in Maine remains high, ... While many in Maine pay a high percentage of their income in taxes, others are not paying their fair share. That has to change.

Deborah Hutton
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Doing nothing results in an absolutely massive unfunded liability.

Jeff Furnish
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This report is particularly timely now in light of the recent news of Asarco, once the nation's largest mining company, going bankrupt, leaving U.S. taxpayers with more than $1 billion in unfunded environmental liabilities.

David Chambers
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[The U.S. has $17 trillion of unfunded liabilities.] In the G-7 countries it's 50 percent to100 percent larger in relationship to the Gross Domestic Product, ... This is a global issue.

Pete Peterson
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[In passing the Real ID Act, Congress did not intend to create a series of hard-to-comply-with rules but to encourage minimum standards for states to verify the identities of drivers license holders, said U.S. Representative Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican.] We weren't trying to carve out artificially high standards, ... This is not an unfunded mandate [to states].

Tom Davis
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I think it's a really good roadmap to start solving the unfunded liability. We have to raise this $600 million, but I don't think that's enough: We're talking at least a billion or more.

Jim Madaffer
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