California County Expenditures (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from California County Expenditures This study is intended as a first step in the development of a research program by the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics in problems of public finance in their relation to agriculture. The acute ness of the agricultural-tax situation in recent years has been apparent to all. Not so apparent have been the ways and means of ameliorating the situation in a reasonably permanent and equitable manner. Grant ing that changes in the public business, as it affects the California farmer and the citizens of the state in general, have been shown to be necessary in recent years, there is every need for the fullest under standing of this public business. False panaceas and illusory suggestions for reform flourish where there is an inadequate knowledge of the actual, if often disconcerting, facts. Disappointment and consequent delay of really substantial progress usually follows such fruitless change. Furthermore, government and the provision of government services constitute by far the most important cooperative undertakings of the people of California. This creates a need for widespread understanding of governmental activity which has been recognized since the time of the earliest democratic institutions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.