5/12/2007

ALERT: TTC RAIL PURE PORK BILL - UNLIMITED DEBT AND TAXPAYER SUBSIDIES!

RAILROADED?

by Eileen Welsome of Texas Observer

With only a couple of weeks left in the session, lawmakers are rushing to put through legislation that eventually could cost taxpayers BILLIONS of dollars. One bill that passed the House and is pending in the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security committee is a very brief piece of legislation, HB 3747, that would allow TxDot to use money from the general fund for the Texas Rail Relocation and Improvement Fund.

The rail relocation effort is part of TxDot’s grand scheme to build the Trans-Texas Corridor...(Read the rest of the story here)

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