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Big Fight Over Tax Dollars
May 17, 2013 | WTEV-Syndi

Shocking things welfare can buy
May 17, 2013 | KSNW NBC 3

Superintendent's Growing Bonus
May 16, 2013 | WTEV-Syndi

Sacramento Connect

Life Jacket Trade-In Events to be Held May 24 and 25 at Englebright Lake and Martis Creek Lake
May 22, 2013
SACRAMENTO, Calif. May 22, 2013 – The Department of Boating and Waterways (DBW) announces the 14th Annual Life Jacket Trade-In. Events will be held at 30...

UC Berkeley Professor Promotes Terrorist Palestinians over Israel—With Your Tax Dollars
April 25, 2013
UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian Promoted ASUC Divestment Vote by Cinnamon Stillwell, Campus Watch, 4/25/13 Predictably, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) has...

Opinion: Elk Grove Should Consider Gun Buy Back Program
April 25, 2013
By Steve Lee | I read today that the City of Elk Grove is considering “giving” a $175,000 “incentive” to a privately owned restaurant group that wants to re-open...

California Health Council Giving Free Condoms to 12-Year-Olds
May 01, 2013
SACRAMENTO (CNN)-With just a few clicks of a mouse, kids as young as 12 can have free condoms delivered to their doors in California.News of the program’s...

See Exactly Where Your Tax Dollars Went: National Priorities Project Releases
April 01, 2013
April 1, 2013 - Millions of Americans will file their 2012 federal income tax returns on April 15, but few know what happens to their tax dollars. That's why...

Obama Spends $880,000 Tax Dollars: Study Sex Life of New Zealand Snails (not a joke)
March 29, 2013
Feds Spending $880,000 to Study Benefits of Snail Sex By Matt Cover, CNSNews, 3/27/13 The National Science Foundation awarded a grant for $876,752 to the...

Other local news reports

Brown's'' Principle of Subsidiarity'' Draws Support - with an Asterisk
April 29, 2013 | RSS Feed: Capital Public Radio News
California Governor Jerry Brown wants to give local school districts more flexibility in how they spend state tax dollars. But many lawmakers have conflicted reactions: They...

Letter: Sequestration vs. big oil tax dollars
March 07, 2013 | AppealDemocrat
The big word this week is:'' Sequestration.'' There is a faction in Congress that wants to cut government spending. Which is well and good and a step in the right direction....

Thomas D. Elias: Whose tax dollars are they, anyway?
November 19, 2012 | AppealDemocrat
That question: Who do tax dollars really belong... ...

Thomas D. Elias: Brown wants English learners' funded
February 25, 2013 | AppealDemocrat
Gov. Jerry Brown has never described it quite this way, but the essence of what he wants to do with many of the new tax dollars from last fall's Proposition 30 is finish the job...

From around the web

Your tax dollars at work: Apple's Cook navigates the senatorial theater of the absurd
May 21, 2013 | GigaOM
The reason for Apple's being singled out for common U.S. tax minimization practices was not completely explained by a U.S. Senate subcommittee Tuesday. But Tim Cook handled the...

Yay!
May 19, 2013 | Vent
Tax dollars for'' prison poetry'' Busted Rhyme ...

Proposed roundabout angers Warrenville businesses and residents
May 15, 2013 | chicagotribune.com - Local news
A proposed oval roundabout that would change an awkward intersection in Warrenville has angered many business owners and residents who call it a waste of tax dollars that will...

Readers' views on school vouchers
May 11, 2013 | indystar.com
Gov. Mike Pence on Thursday signed a new law that will let more children use tax dollars ... '' Your Money'' --'' Your Tax Dollars ... Money'' --'' Their Tax Dollars'' go to the school...

Infographic: Is Your State's Highest- Paid Employee A Coach?
May 09, 2013 | Deadspin
So are my hard-earned tax dollars paying these coaches? Probably not. The bulk of this coaching money -- especially at the big football schools -- is paid out of the revenue...

School vouchers expand as Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signs measure at Calvary Christian...
May 09, 2013 | indystar.com
Surrounded by dozens of cheering students from eight religious schools, Gov. Mike Pence on Thursday signed into law a measure that will let more children use tax dollars to...

Tax Dollars on twitter

	@SenCarlLevin @SenJohnMcCain @SenRandPaul What a waste of tax dollars and time. The question is did #Apple break the law? No..the. Shut up!! Twitter: @tt4mac
	Why is Lois Turner, who refuses to tell the truth, still being paid by r tax dollars. She needs to be fired immediately/her pension revoked. Twitter: @wisdomforwomen
	RT @SI_Bike_Assoc: @joshgreenman MSG will be there in 15 years. Not going anywhere. Supposed Pen station upgrade is a scam and a waste of Tax dollars. Twitter: @total_scam
	Our tax dollars make you look good @keecher9 http://t.co/rotT4H6s20 Twitter: @NotTheFakeChad
	RT @OaklandRising: Do you know how Oakland spends your tax dollars? No? That's because it's pretty hard to find out! So we... http://t.co/eEnyN3BWqQ Twitter: @Tivon
	RT @theaveragevoter: I guess .@ChicagosMayor feels it's more important to give tax dollars towards a Arena for DePaul hoops. A program that's sucked for decades Twitter: @BrianCostin