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Funding for Sacramento light rail extension announced
Is this another “NY Turboliner” misjudgement? I still do not understand why my Georgia dollars go to California for something like this. Oh wait, economic justification is not yet well understood…
Andrew , I suppose you wouldn’t mind if your tax dollars go to LAX for a huge upgrade that’s going commence soon. Certainly, you are not going to benefit from that big expenditure.
This could become a discussion that gets out of hand very quickly. Where tax dollars get spent tends to become anti-NIMBY in nature. For example, why should my tax dollars be spent anywhere other than the Republic of Texas. For that matter, why should they be spent outside the coastal bend? Because in the long run a project in Sacramento will be evened out by a subsequent project in Atlanta, or one in the Texas Panhandle will be offset by one here in the coastal bend.
Another great mass transit project, that Guse will support 110%!!!
PS Andrew: I don’t use METRA, however, I don’t mind my New Jersey dollars go for METRA. Atlanta.
Because Andrew, This is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, not Soviet Georgia. We all pay taxes to support this country to keep it running. I don’t like the idea of all these highways, but I don’t withhold my taxes because of that. However, I’m a long time member of NARP, whose long time president was a Georigian named Jack Martin, a lawyer for Coca Cola. So every body’s dollars goes for everything!
Andrew…it’s very obvious why your tax dollars are spent in California…to reduce our unemployment. We need jobs and in the humble opinion of all the Democratic law makers we have here and the administrators in Washington, the best way to create new jobs is to have the government spend more money and borrow it from China. It’s as simple as that. Watch what happens next…the construction contractor will be from China.
I have to correct myself once again. Atlanta’s system is called MARTA. Not METRA. I found an old MARTA map.