Brockton Enterprise: Get Rid of County Government

The Brockton Enterprise published a timely and succint editorial on the uselessness of “County Government.”

The lead graph is pretty devastating to County Government proponents – which would include all current Norfolk County Commissioners and candidates, with the lone exception of Tom Gorman.

“Most of the county governments in the state voted themselves out of existence a decade ago, allowing the state to take over the few essential tasks that were involved in the counties. Nine little governments and their bloated budgets went poof! — and just like that, taxpayers saved millions of dollars.”

Here’s another statement we liked:

“Some of the evidence that this extra layer of government is useless and costly is that its officers are always begging the state for money. Wisely, state officials have occasionally let the counties strangle themselves with their own budgetary lack of good sense. The state should continue to ignore pleas from the counties and just swallow them whole.“

Team Gorman couldn’t have written any better.