On budget issues -local and national- it can and with voter interest-
likely will be brought under control again.
The governments need to keep taxes down and -in case or local
property taxes- reduce them so as to promote and not strangle off
prosperity -the governments funding engine -that's Keynesian Theory of
economics.
The city, if they choose, can reduce the budget by enough to get by
for a few -like five- years, while debt -and attendant expense- is reduced
and revenue -through new construction properties on line and increased other
revenues- is increased.
On federal level an effort to get rid of Saddam Hussien wouldn't cost
anywheres near $200 billion. On the day they start the action -with
beaucoup cruise missles already paid for- they likely would have it
accomplished by 7 am with mop up work left. There would be a lot of expense
having troops in Iraq for a period though that likely would be mostly other
country troops and expense.
Of course there is the profiteer -from government- crowd that wants
the cost high as the money goes into their pockets, and they mainly are the
ones preaching about what the costs will be.
As example, in southern Texas when the bridge to South Padre Island
was knocked out a year ago, the boat taxi guys -being paid by federal
government and acting very inside knowledgable- said it likely would take a
year to get the bridge repaired. It was done in a few months.
James Jacobsen // Whittier
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