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$1+ Billion of Federal Tax Money for 6.7 miles of track

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From: Bill Baker
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00
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As a Cleveland taxpayer, how do you feel about the San Francisco Bay
Area Rapid Transit District (BART) asking Congress to spend
$1,167,000,000 (that's $1 BILLION+) of your federal tax dollars to build
6.7 miles of track from Colma, a town with a population of 1,236, where
most of the land is occupied with cemeteries, to San Francisco's
Airport?

Do you think the people in the San Francisco Bay Area can find a less
expensive way to get to the airport?

Congress says they will give this project $750,000,000 federal tax
dollars (that's $111,940,298.507 of Federal tax dollars spent per mile
of track!).

Can you think of anything else that the Federal government might spend
this $750 MILLION on? Is this pork, in its purest form, or just the
way things are?

Let the world know what you think. Visit our BART TRACKS Bulletin Board
and leave a message telling everyone what you think about the San
Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District's plan to spend more
than $1 billion of your Federal tax money on 6.7 miles of track.
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Subject: $1+ Billion of Federal Tax Money for 6.7 miles of track
Date: 1996/06/28
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