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Everyone remembers the fairy tale about the “Three Little Pigs.” You may not know, however, that we have our very own version of the Three Little Pigs right here in Washington County. In the fairy tale version, the Three Little Pigs leave home to seek their fortunes, learning valuable life lessons along the way. The Three Little Pigs in the Washington County version are state legislators who leave home to spend your money, forgetting their promises of fiscal responsibility in the process. Washington County’s Three Little Pigs are state Sen. Rusty Crowe and state Reps. Dale Ford and Matthew Hill. All three of these state legislators, each of whom is Republican, claims to be a fiscal conservative and a responsible steward of your tax dollars. Unfortunately, for taxpayers, those claims appear to be fairy tales.Full Story There are more and more people paying attention now that waste and spending have gone out of control.
East TN Conservative
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The Pork Report exposes $260 million in waste, fraud and abuse of
tax dollars and offers enough examples to make any Tennessee taxpayer
cringe, including:
-- $6.5 million for boll weevil eradication - even though the
pests no longer threaten Tennessee's cotton crops;
Compare your budget
Paying 600$ to remove a mouse you might have in your house?
-- $1.7 million to fund a ferry service used by an average of 23
people per day;
Compare your budget
paying $100 a week for your neighbor to pick up your kid
to play at their house across the street.
-- $1.4 million to subsidize failing state-owned golf;
-- $420,000 for electric motors that were never delivered to
Memphis schools;
Compare your budget<
Paying $40 for a piece of candy for your wife and never gave it to her.
-- $200,000 in subsidies for fairs and livestock shows;
-- $27,620 to support a film festival that screened "Goodnight
Vagina" and "The Teat Beat of Sex;" and
-- $14,436 to replace dimmer switches in the Governor's Mansion
with fancier brass models.
Info from Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR)
Please post your own comparisons.
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