You don't like the stimulus? Then don't take the money!
| By Michael Ditto - Feb 16th, 2009 at 10:25 am EST |
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Categories: Economic Fairness & Security, Smart Energy Policy, Effective & Ethical Government, Education, Budget Priorities
Categories: Economic Fairness & Security, Smart Energy Policy, Effective & Ethical Government, Education, Budget Priorities
Paul Begala:
That's exactly right. According to the same data Begala cites, Coloradans only get 81 cents back for every dollar they send to Washington. And Coloradans are strangled by the grip of TABOR, and thanks to the Bush administration, federal lands have been given away to the oil companies for a song while state and local government have to bear the burden of a boom-and-bust cycle.
So we'll take our stimulus, thank you very much. Colorado has sent more money to Washington than it has received in Federal spending for sixteen of the past twenty-five years. Washington owes us one, and thankfully seven of our nine-member Congressional delegation have fought to make it so.
If Republican politicians are so deeply opposed to President Obama's economic recovery plan, they should refuse to take the money. After all, if you think all that federal spending is damaging, there are easy ways to reduce it: Don't take federal money.
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Justice Louis Brandeis famously called states "laboratories of democracy." So let's experiment. Gov. Sanford can be the guinea pig. His Palmetto State already gets $1.35 back from Washington for every dollar it pays in federal taxes, according to 2005 numbers, the latest calculated by the Tax Foundation, a nonprofit tax research group.
That's exactly right. According to the same data Begala cites, Coloradans only get 81 cents back for every dollar they send to Washington. And Coloradans are strangled by the grip of TABOR, and thanks to the Bush administration, federal lands have been given away to the oil companies for a song while state and local government have to bear the burden of a boom-and-bust cycle.
So we'll take our stimulus, thank you very much. Colorado has sent more money to Washington than it has received in Federal spending for sixteen of the past twenty-five years. Washington owes us one, and thankfully seven of our nine-member Congressional delegation have fought to make it so.
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They're even pushing another bailout to the McWhinney's by finishing an I-25 overpass. Chad McWhinney has been bragging for years that we can't trust the State or Federal government to finish this job. Now look what's happening.
We must capture and document every instance of a Colorado radical conservative joining the stimulus club. This is particularly vital while watching JBC House Republican Don Marostica start his campaign for Governor.