I just joined Stimulus Watch, a web site where you can take look at the so-called "shovel-ready" projects that mayors from around the country have submitted to be recipients of the government's largesse (that is, our tax bucks). You can vote on the projects, share your opinions, and even (if you know something about the project) edit the wording of the project.
Go on over there and see what's coming for your area. Then make a note, so you can go back in five or ten years and complain when nothing is being done yet.
There seem to be an awful lot of road projects in the "Stimulus Bill" it's quite a shame that the beaurocrats are trying to drive us out of our cars "Governor seeks tax on auto mileage" http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20081230/NEWS/812300316/1001 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090220/0857093841.shtml
ReplyDeleteOregon seems to lead the world in a lot of extreme categories. This idea is a natural result of increasing taxes: whenever it happens, less of whatever is taxed occurs, revenue declines, and they have to look for another source of income. Not unlike what happened with tobacco taxes. Democrats seem always to want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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