The San Francisco Bay Area

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Excerpt from The San Francisco Bay Area: Its Problems and FutureLocal governments throughout the nation face a common fiscal prob lem: imbalance between the costs of providing local services and the productivity of local sources of support. Traditional methods of raising revenue have proved too limited and inflexible to permit local govern ments to tap adequately and equitably the resources that are available to pay for public services. The basic difficulty is lack of suitable revenue raising machinery, rather than lack of capacity.One of the main features of our multi-level political system is the assignment of many functions of civil government to the various geo graphical subdivisions of the states. Responsibility for provision of public education, of welfare services, of police and fire protection, of streets and sewers, and of parks and recreation, for example, is largely delegated to counties, cities, school districts, or other local units.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.