Thursday, May 10, 2007

Shouldn't You Return Stolen Property?

I may have written about this before, but when I was a kid, back in the 1960’s, I stole a pack of baseball cards.  You know the ones, they had a crappy piece of gum in the pack and maybe five or ten baseball cards, too.

My dad found out about my nefariousness, and after cajoling out my confession, sent me back to the store with the stolen merchandise, sans the gum which had been chewed and spit out after a short time.

Humbling experience to say the least.

Well, in Montana, the politicos seem to have an extra $1 billion dollars of individuals’ money in their possession.  Call the money stolen, or overcharges, or what-have-you, but shouldn’t that money be returned to the individuals who it was stolen from in the first place?

After arguing for four months over how to spend the budget surplus windfall - equal to more than $2,500 per taxpayer - the politically divided Legislature adjourned for the first time anyone can recall without adopting a state budget.

Additionally, if that money was returned to its rightful owners, wouldn’t it create an additional economic boom, in a state of that population size, which would enable additional monies to be misappropriated for the state’s coffers?  Or, are the Montana politicos too proud to admit their wrong doing?

I’m just asking.

Montana Lawmakers Squabble Over Surplus

Posted by John Venlet on 05/10 at 04:12 PM
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