New From the Reason Foundation: the "Taxpayer's Guide to the Stimulus"

Matt Welch | June 17, 2009

The Reason Foundation–the nonprofit that publishes this website and magazine–has produced a comprehensive Taxpayer's Guide to the Stimulus. Explains project coordinator Anthony Randazzo:

We have done our best to explain the provisions in simple language while pointing out some of the policy implications of the spending. There are charts and graphs that show the spending, a table of costs, and a breakdown of spending for each sector of the American economy. We have also listed some resources for you to explore how the stimulus is being spent today.

You can, for instance, click on the "Commerce, Justice, and Science" link, one of 15 major categories of spending, and learn about the "$650 million for Digital TV Converter Coupons," among other allegedly recession-beating measures.

Click here for the full report.

Comments

OO===D|6.17.09 @ 5:32PM|#

For the record, I am pro stimulus.

Publius|6.17.09 @ 5:45PM|#

you should pdf it

Naga Sadow|6.17.09 @ 6:03PM|#

Great title. I just finished reading "So long and thanks for all the fish" a few weeks back.

Tim Cavanaugh would be a perfect Ford Prefect.

smartass sob|6.18.09 @ 12:59AM|#

"$650 million for Digital TV Converter Coupons,"

Oh yeah. Coupons for $40 off on a $50 or $60 item. Sounds like a great buy, except those converters probably don't have more than a dollar's worth of parts in them or cost more than a couple bucks each to make. If the one I bought is typical, they don't work right half the time either. They're really not a very good value even at $10 each. I'd say somebody got to the taxpayers really well on that deal.

roy|6.18.09 @ 7:38AM|#

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Now...if you expect to fool me repeatedly and brainwash me into defending you, believing your completely meaningless promises to change and praising you for your high ideals and selflessness while you enrich yourself and your buddies at my expense and threatening me with the loss of my freedom if I attempt to resist, my life if I succeed.... well, you're delusional if you expect me to play that game.... if I did, I would deserve everything I got.

So expect no sympathy from me for american taxpayers. You should have revolted long ago.