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Governments need to be sustainable in order to be functional. You should know that seeing you are in California and the CA citizens, industry, and economy cannot sustain the government and it's programs.
So while you may want it to be functional because that is the desire or goal, the reality is that money is a resource that has be be handled and dealt with. NYC was close to bankrupt in 1975, and Ford told NYC to "Drop Dead!" I'd like that to be Obama's response as well.
Local governments need to be able to be sustainable for it to be functional. Anything less is folly. This means that they may require cash reserves in order to cover "rainy" days, thus it is a profit motive. If it wasn't speeding tickets and other "cash cows" would not exist.
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