Hows the Kool-Aid?
Ron Paul knows how to hose the taxpayers, just like the rest of them.
In 2007 Paul received an embarrassing 29% on the Club for Growth’s RePORK Card, voting for only 12 of the 50 anti-pork amendments.
Some of the outrageous pork projects Paul voted to keep include $231,000 for the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association’s Urban Center; $129,000 for the “perfect Christmas tree project;” $300,000 for the On Location Entertainment Industry Craft Technician Training Project in California; $150,000 for the South Carolina Aquarium; and $500,000 for the National Mule and Packers Museum in California. This year, Ron Paul requested more than sixty earmarks “worth tens of millions of dollars for causes as diverse as rebuilding a Texas theater, funding a local trolley, and helping his state’s shrimp industry.”
In defense of his support for earmarks, Rep. Paul took the if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em position, arguing that “I don’t think they should take our money in the first place. But if they take it, I think we should ask for it back.” This is a contradiction of Paul’s self-proclaimed “opposition to appropriations not authorized within the enumerated powers of the Constitution.”
I tend not to drink sugary drinks. How does Ron Paul hose the taxpayer? Does he not vote against government spending? If the majority of Congress voted like Ron Paul would there be more government spending, less, or the same? What happens to money in the budget that is not allocated by the Congress? Does it go back to the taxpayer, or does it go to the executive branch for their discretionary use?