Posted on 02/27/2013 4:20:30 PM PST by Olog-hai
Federal funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is up by more than half—in real dollars—since 2008, according to calculations based on Treasury Department data.
In 2008, EPA funding was $7,938,000,000, according to the Final Monthly Treasury Statement for fiscal year 2008. That would be $8,464,894,460 in real 2012 dollars, according to the BLS calculator. The same Treasury report said EPA funding climbed to $12,796,000,000 in fiscal year 2012. That’s a 51.1 percent funding increase from four years earlier. …
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No surprise there , yet we STILL can’t find anything to cut, so says the media lackey’s...Guess it’s more Republican fault
EPA gsains money, GDP tanks. Sounds like cause and effect to me.
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