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Carl Gatto, a Republican state lawmaker, along a federally funded highway project in Wasilla, Alaska. “I’ll give the federal government credit: they sure give us a ton of money,” Mr. Gatto said.Though Leery of Washington, Alaska Feasts on Its Dollars
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/1…“I’ve introduced legislation to roll back the federal government,” he says. “They don’t have solutions; they just have taxes.”
And what of the federal stimulus, from which Alaska receives the most money per capita in the nation? Would he reject it?
Mr. Gatto, 72 and wiry, smiles and shakes his head: “I’ll give the federal government credit: they sure give us a ton of money. For every $1 we give them in taxes for highways, they give us back $5.76.”
- out with the old please.zenmasterfoo
- Its election time why not throw your adversary a lil bone.74LEO