Yup, that's my current opinion. Counties can be extremely well-funded if they encompass a city, and may have almost no funding at all if they're rural. The need

Yup, that's my current opinion. Counties can be extremely well-funded if they encompass a city, and may have almost no funding at all if they're rural. The needs of each county government are obviously different as well, but there's still a bunch of fixed costs that take up a disproportionately large part of smaller counties' budgets.