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Old 22nd March 2008, 07:08 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Paterson backs congestion charge

danny burstein wrote:
> In <f6add79c-f84a-4335-9f4e-7e450c9ca510@d62g2000hsf..com> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@> writes:
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>>> 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.
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