Paterson backs congestion charge danny burstein wrote:
> In <f6add79c-f84a-4335-9f4e-7e450c9ca510@d62g2000hsf..com> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@> writes:
>
>>> Then there are the people who question this whole concept
>>> of federal funds, that is, taxpayer money, going to local
>>> projects of this sort.
Well, it happens. And we're taxpayers here, and many of the tax dollars
we send Washington aren't spent on us. As a matter of fact, they're
spent on local projects elsewhere. So at least this way we get some of
that back.
>> As if those who will benefit from it are not also taxpayers?
>
> They're being fed the li[n]e that since it's federal
> money, it's not costing them anything.
It may be costing us something, but if it's not spent on us, it will be
spent elsewhere. |