Legislative leaders continue their closed door discussions on an anticipated $900 million tax increase. They claim spending must increase and they need more to keep teachers in the classroom. Fair enough if they are responsible stewards of our money or are even able to set reasonable priorities. Do we really want these folks to have more money? Here?s $703.5 million they?ve wasted recently.
Mental Health Money: Wasted $635.3 million.
A couple of years ago, bungled paving job on I-40 costs up to $30 million to fix. And now, the state did not listen to an outside expert and now has to spend $13 million to repair damage on I-795.
Wasted: $43 million
Lavish fishing pier in Dare County:
Wasted: $25 million
Department of Commerce executives? two week trip to travel about Europe and attend a Paris air show.
Wasted: $137,500
1100 crab pots: wasted $38,018
And then there was that matter of shorting crime victims (who are also tax payers, by the way) of restitution they were owed. In 80,148 cases restitution was not paid in full, while the courts collected
$8.5 million.
If your brother in law or teenager exhibited this kind of money management with your money, would you give them more?
*Thanks to Ben for help with this!
