Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Unknown Taxpayer Preferences demonstrates the most common and difficult of contradictory public interest demands: the public’s strong, unambiguous demand for lower taxes, which has persisted together with the public’s continuing demand for more spending for favorite programs. This e-book demonstrates the need for local goverment staff to stay out of local politics, but that option is not available in this case. The politics involved are not the politics of election campaigns; they are the politics of budgeting.