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Nothing unusual about that.
Barron’s bill would get $1 billion from the $2.5 billion Alabama Trust Fund. The trust fund was built over three decades with money from natural gas wells drilled in state-owned waters along the Alabama coast.
This is on top of half a billion from the feds for Alabama Roads in the first stimulus package and the Feds are considering giving Alabama another half a billion. If all goes as planned that would give Alabama $2,000,000,000 for roads.
My question is where does the money collected from the tax on gasoline go? I mean besides bike paths, river walks, parking lots and other projects that are mostly pork.
Will this stimulate the Alabama economy?
Not if previous efforts are any indication
An Associated Press analysis of stimulus spending found that it didn’t matter if a lot of money was spent on highways or none at all: Local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless. And the stimulus spending only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, the analysis showed.”
The most likely result will be a " Lowell Barron Higway" crisscrossing Fyffe.
Remember that redneckin repeatedly warned that Alabama would set up rainy day funds and them raid them on a regular basis.
Barron’s bill would get $1 billion from the $2.5 billion Alabama Trust Fund. The trust fund was built over three decades with money from natural gas wells drilled in state-owned waters along the Alabama coast.
This is on top of half a billion from the feds for Alabama Roads in the first stimulus package and the Feds are considering giving Alabama another half a billion. If all goes as planned that would give Alabama $2,000,000,000 for roads.
My question is where does the money collected from the tax on gasoline go? I mean besides bike paths, river walks, parking lots and other projects that are mostly pork.
Will this stimulate the Alabama economy?
Not if previous efforts are any indication
An Associated Press analysis of stimulus spending found that it didn’t matter if a lot of money was spent on highways or none at all: Local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless. And the stimulus spending only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, the analysis showed.”
The most likely result will be a " Lowell Barron Higway" crisscrossing Fyffe.
Remember that redneckin repeatedly warned that Alabama would set up rainy day funds and them raid them on a regular basis.
posted at 08:18:19 on 01/22/10
by Chuck Myguts -
Category: Alabama
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Richard wrote:
01/22/10 10:02:05
Chuck Myguts wrote:
I wrote a comment that turned rather lengthy.
I think that I'll re-write it as a post.
Short answer "it is a matter of free speech".
"Buying the vote"? What do you think Barron's highway bill is?
When ever you vote to take from one to give to another, your buying the seconds vote. When you take from 49% to give to 51%, your buying the vote and solidifying your position. Elected politicians have the public forum from the media pretty much on demand
Should Soro's or Forbes (and on local levels, Turners Herrings or...) be allowed to spend as much as they want as individuals, while poorer people aren't allowed to ban together to oppose their plans?
I think that I'll re-write it as a post.
Short answer "it is a matter of free speech".
"Buying the vote"? What do you think Barron's highway bill is?
When ever you vote to take from one to give to another, your buying the seconds vote. When you take from 49% to give to 51%, your buying the vote and solidifying your position. Elected politicians have the public forum from the media pretty much on demand
Should Soro's or Forbes (and on local levels, Turners Herrings or...) be allowed to spend as much as they want as individuals, while poorer people aren't allowed to ban together to oppose their plans?
01/22/10 10:44:32
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Or it a free speech matter, as the majority concluded?