Your Tax Dollars at Work
Filed by: Waymon Hudson
December 1, 2008 5:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/your_tax_dollars_at_work.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/your_tax_dollars_at_work.php)
It's very clear that the economy is in the toilet. The national crisis is trickling down (is that what they meant by "trickle-down economics"??) to the states- with education, healthcare, first responders and hundreds of other programs being slashed to make up for budget short falls. This would seem like a time to spend taxpayer dollars carefully, especially in states hit hard in the economic crisis and housing bubble burst.
Well, count on Florida to find a way to use your taxpayer dollars to push bogus bigotry and anti-gay laws. We all heard the great news of Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman declaring Florida's anti-gay adoption ban unconstitutional, a case expected to move up the court system and hopefully overturn the ban once and for all. What you might not have heard is that the state of Florida paid $60,000 to retain former University of South Carolina professor George A. Rekers to testify on behalf of the ban. Rekers was the state's "expert witness", even though he had been discredited in a similar case involving gay adoption in Arkansas.
Yes, ladies and gents, those are your tax dollars at work.