{"id":1738,"date":"2008-08-07T07:13:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T13:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2008-08-07T07:14:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T13:14:31","slug":"state-looks-for-more-ways-to-spend-our-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/state-looks-for-more-ways-to-spend-our-money\/","title":{"rendered":"State looks for more ways to spend our money"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can\u2019t open a newspaper or watch the evening news without hearing how poor our state is. Someone is always lamenting the fact that Governor Jim Doyle just doesn\u2019t have enough taxpayer money to spend. And of course, the only answer the politicians ever come up with is to tax us more. Heaven forbid that anyone would stop spending so much.<\/p>\n

Yet every time we turn around, someone is coming up with a new way to spend our money. Today\u2019s gem is almost $11 million of taxpayer dollars, which will likely be approved to buy a chunk of land in Mukowonago<\/a>. It\u2019s a 970-acre property known as Rainbow Springs, a chunk of land that has not been successfully developed, even though several people have tried.<\/p>\n

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel even reports that the purchase of the land would be \u201c\u2026one of the state\u2019s most expensive conservation land purchases in southeastern Wisconsin\u2026\u201d Government officials are touting this as an opportunity to prevent it from being developed (no economic development allowed!) and a chance to spend even more taxpayer money by creating \u201c\u2026a huge recreational playground for Milwaukee-area residents who generally are within an hour\u2019s drive of the natural area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sorry, people. The government\u2019s job is NOT to create recreational destinations on the taxpayer\u2019s dime. I\u2019m not interested in paying for a place that offers \u201chunting and trapping.\u201d That\u2019s not my responsibility as a taxpayer. And you can bet that the land is going to end up costing far more to taxpayers than the $11 million that they’re ‘fessing up to today. Wait until we’ve put three or four times that amount into the acreage.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to know who thinks it\u2019s really okay for our government to operate this way? We need less government in our lives, not more. If the site is viable as an entertainment and recreation destination, then let a private developer spend the money to try it. I\u2019d rather keep my money in my pocket, thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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