The subject of the paper is the sociological perspective of the allocation of budget funds for the development of the local community with a focus on research on articles on online portals on the topic of the rebalance in 2020. All articles containing the word "rebalance" in the title were taken and the content of the articles was analyzed. What was important was the reaction of the local community itself, ie how it is written about the topic of the rebalance, which has great effects on the functioning of the central state, but also local communities. First of all, the paper explains the basic economic concepts related to the topic of rebalance and budget, and then explains in more detail the revenues and expenditures of the budget of the Republic of Croatia. In addition, emphasis was placed on the budgets of local communities, in this case counties, and how decisions are made at their level. The budgets of all counties were analyzed in a way that looked at changes in revenues and expenditures after the rebalance - changes in the budget. In order to include the sociological perspective, the theory of Georg Simmel and the basic thesis of his book "Philosophy of Money" are presented, which is important for the economic sociology mentioned in this paper and whose main "components" are intertwined in this paper.