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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | reply to fiberguy
Re: Again, this is a Request for a Taxpayer Infusion of Cash said by fiberguy:You're right.. more funding, but they didn't say from where. New accounting rules, can also mean they are allowed to allocate more of the sale money to the program. When "Congress is asked to help," it always means the taxpayer gets screwed. Look at the recent bailouts... that money, one way or another, comes from the taxpayer.
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | said by pnh102:said by fiberguy:You're right.. more funding, but they didn't say from where. New accounting rules, can also mean they are allowed to allocate more of the sale money to the program. When "Congress is asked to help," it always means the taxpayer gets screwed. Look at the recent bailouts... that money, one way or another, comes from the taxpayer. So, if/when it happens, then we can bitch about it..
.. When congress is asked to help, it makes that, since congress makes laws, they have to change the law that allocated the funds and as for more money.
Being "screwed" is an opinion. To some conservatives, anytime tax payer money is used, the tax payer is screwed. To liberals when nothing is spent or given to them, the tax payer is screwed. For these reasons, I tend to ignore "the tax payer is screwed" comments.. where I do NOT ignore them is where the tax payer is really being screwed - such as the bailout of criminals on Wall Street. Or, every time we send money to a foreign country, or when an official allocates funding for projects in the form on an ear mark for the study in making cat fish taste better and so on.
Yes,... MOST of the bailouts were a waist of tax payer money, in that I agree. Where it would NOT have been a waste of money is when they did real investigations into the people responsible so more execs, like in Enron, would have committed suicide.
In this case, I don't think the tax payer is being screwed at all. They raised 20 billion on the sale of the spectrum and allocated 1+ billion on the system in order to be legal. They can CERTAINLY dip into the other 18+ billion and pull some more funds. This is where the accounting part comes in. What were they going to do with the other 18 billion? Put it in the general fund?
So still, I don't buy "the tax payer gets screwed" every time government spends money.. I think much of the spending is wasted.. but that is my opinion and I can't claim fact on it; neither can you. | |
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