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Stop the Pork
By Chris Farris | April 2, 2007
The Republican Liberty Caucus of Georgia, a grassroots organization
promoting individual freedom, limited government and fiscal responsibility, is calling on the State Senate to stand firm and abide by the core principles of the Republican Party by stripping wasteful pork barrel spending from the 2007 supplemental budget.
Supplemental Budgets were intended to cover emergencies. Instead the leadership and appropriators in the House filled the budget with pet projects in their respective districts. For example, appropriators added
$25,000 for the Georgia Sports Hall of fame, $350 for a new animal hospital at Zoo Atlanta, $1 million for the Tour de Georgia and $5 million for the National Infantry museum. While the RLC would oppose these expenditures at any time, no one but the direct beneficiaries would call them emergencies.
The RLC wants to congratulate Lt. Governor Casey Cagle for standing up for the taxpayers of Georgia by working with the Senate leadership to strip away the unnecessary expenses from the 2007 supplemental budget. It was this leadership and adherence to fiscal conservatism which lead us to endorse Casey in the 2006 primaries.
The RLC would like to also recognize State Rep. Steve Davis (R-McDonough), who was the only member of the State House to vote against this pork laden budget. Representative Davis took a big risk in contradicting the wishes of his leadership to cast the lone dissenting vote in favor of the taxpayer.
Supplemental budgets are intended for emergencies, and the General Assembly should not be allowed to go on a spending spree if our tax dollars exceed the annual budget. A proposed constitutional amendment now sitting in the house, SR 20, would limit how the General Assembly may spend additional revenue. The limits would be for funding for increased government school enrollment, fill the rainy-day fund, pay off debts, and return the money to the taxpayers. The Republican Liberty Caucus of Georgia encourages all Republican legislators who believe in fiscal responsibility to vote for SB20.
In 1994, the voters of this country entrusted the Republican Party to run
the Congress, based on their promise to cut taxes, cut wasteful government spending, and reduce the regulations that stifle economic growth. In 2006 the Republican Party lost control of the US Senate and House of Representatives after 12 years of majority control. The reasons were simple. After a brief stint of acting conservative, the leadership in the House and Senate began spending like it was their divine right. They ran up the nation’s credit card and left the bill to be paid for by future generations. The same fate awaits the Georgia Republican Party if we stray from what we believe in.
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