Legislators dump US mandates at 'Tea Party'

Mimicking American colonists, four state senators from across the country staged a modern-day Boston Tea Party yesterday, this time protesting an overreaching government on the mainland.

"Instead of throwing tea in the harbor, we want to dump some of the unfunded federal mandates that we've been saddled with by Congress over the years," said Senator Richard T. Moore, who represents the Worcester and Norfolk districts in the state Legislature. "It's easy if you live in Washington to vote for a program, especially if you don't have to pay for it."
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An example of this would be federally mandated (but underfunded) education programs which forces schools then to use money from their general funds to fund these mandated programs and leaving them short of money. This, of course, forces the schools to seek more local funding. Maybe the federal government should just stay out of education.