Your Tax Dollars At Work

Carol Platt Liebau | February 12, 2009 12:32 PM

The next time a Democrat tries to convince you that big-spending liberal governments dole out your money as if it were their own, remember this:

Taxpayer largesse in California has gone to fund statues of dogs performing natural bodily functions

, albeit those usually consigned to the realm of the private. The artist was paid $196,000 to produce these uplifting "works of art."

It's too bad that the California GOP doesn't start running some ads on how public money -- in a state that's strapped, and raising taxes willy-nilly -- is being allocated. But let's hope that the national GOP will follow and then report to the public about how the "stimulus" money is being used -- how 'bout a series of ads called "Your Tax Dollars At Work"?

After all, it's absolutely impossible that the nearly trillion-dollar pork plan that's been rammed through by Democrats won't include many such boondoggles. (It will be interesting to see whether the $50 million stuck into the House package for the NEA was restored in the Democrats-only conference.) That's what happens when many people who've never had to be producers in any real sense start playing around with the public purse.

Your Tax Dollars At Work

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos