By RFD Radio
SPRINGFIELD – The head of the National Governors Association says the federal government can take some of the blame for budget problems facing Illinois and some other states.
Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican from Utah, said mandates from the federal government are, in his words, costing states tons of money.
“We are laboratories of Democracy,” Herbert said “We learn from each other. What works in one state might not work in another state, but we cannot have Washington D.C. with this constatnt one size fits all mentality. Let the states have the autonomy they need to develop their own solutions.”
Herbert recently addressed an American Farm Bureau conference and cited federal government costs related to health care and transportation as the biggest examples causing budget fits for Illinois and other some states.
