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Your Tax Dollars at Work?
1 posted on 10/24/2006 7:50:11 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

We have been paying huge taxes on gas that was specifically to go toward freeways and improvements. It didn't.

We do not need anothere bond. We simply allocate the tax dollars to what is was said it was going to do.


2 posted on 10/24/2006 7:54:40 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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Our new tunnel...the one under Boston Harbor that leaks and breaks apart killing motorists...was proposed by Mike Dukakis (yes,*that* Mike Dukakis) at about $2 billion.

It's now up to $14 billion.And it leaks.

So,using the same multiples,this one should come in at about 140 billion.But at that price,it probably won't leak.

3 posted on 10/24/2006 8:09:51 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
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In September, the Associated Press reported that "more than 40 percent of the nearly $20 billion will not go toward the well-advertised road projects. Rather, billions of dollars will go toward projects that have tenuous connections to relieving the state's worst traffic jams." [ref AP article at FR]

GOP state Board of Equalization member Bill Leonard is telling people to vote against Proposition 1B, because . . . while the measure promises to improve congestion, "25.1 percent of the bond funds are explicitly dedicated to public transit systems that are used by approximately 1.4 percent of the state's population."

State Sen. Tom McClintock . . . opposes Proposition 1B because a number of items on its list -- for example, $200 million for school buses -- won't be around in 30 years, when the bonds are supposed to be paid off. The $20 billion "ought to be used for projects that are going to be there for our kids 30 years from now" . . .

There is only one thing to say about Prop 1B: VOTE NO!

4 posted on 10/24/2006 4:05:05 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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