The price tag of the stimulus now swelled to $1.1 trillion, which means it will cost each American family over $10,000 a year!
With things in the bill that goes to pet projects like:
· $400,000,000.00 for researching sexually transmitted diseases
· $200,000,000.00 to force the military to buy environmentally-friendly electric cars
· $34,000,000.00 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
· $75,000,000.00 million for a program to end smoking which, if successful will bankrupt the State Children's Health Program Democrats are about to pass (SCHIP) that is paid for by cigarette taxes
· $650,000,000.00 million for digital TV coupons
· $50,000,000.00 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
Read :
http://www.cato.org/pubs/tbb/tbb_1208-51.pdf
http://republicanleader.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=109402
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