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To: Carry_Okie; SierraWasp; NormsRevenge; Amerigomag; Czar; goldstategop; tubebender; hedgetrimmer; ...
And too much of the money, opponents say, would be dedicated to putting private land in government's hands.
"What water bond?" said Assemblyman Doug La Malfa (R-Richvale). "You mean the land acquisition bond?" Ping!
2 posted on
10/03/2006 11:25:33 AM PDT by
calcowgirl
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
To: calcowgirl
Proposition 84 was written by a Sacramento lobbyist whose clients are land preservation and environmental groups that stand to win public money for pet projects through the measure..
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FRom 2002
Joe Caves and a $3.46 billion bond measure to buy coastal lands and improve water quality has landed on the statewide ballot for November amid criticism that it is skewed toward environmental priorities and projects in Southern California.
http://www.cdfa.net/cdfa/press.nsf/pages/367
3 posted on
10/03/2006 11:30:23 AM PDT by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
To: calcowgirl
Proposition 84 carries the highest price yet: $5.4 billion in principal. The cost is more than $10 billion when interest on the 30-year bond is included.I keep asking and looking, but no answers yet:
Does a matrix exist listing total California taxpayer liabilities for every and every year in the future up to and including 30 years?
These tax users think bonds are free money.
The newest and latest unfunded liabilities crisis we can look forward to!
6 posted on
10/03/2006 11:47:23 AM PDT by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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