Case 2

You have just been elected to your state legislature. One piece of proposed legislation on your desk is a new law requiring all governmental units in the state to prepare balanced budgets. In this bill, balanced budgets are defined as ones in which expected resources available at the beginning of a fiscal year (beginning fund balance plus estimated revenues) must equal or exceed that years appropriations. A conservative legislator from a rural county attached a rider to the bill deleting this definition of balanced budgets and substituting one in which budgets are balanced only if estimated revenues equal appropriations.

Would you vote for this rider? State your reasons.

Why might feelings vary on this issue between legislators from large cities and those from rural counties?

No other information was provided. This is the complete question.