no the government offered the handout to get the railroads to build across the empty center of the country.



bush wants the government to stop wasting the tax that they are collecting now before they collect more to waste.

If that was the truth, he'd stop wasting money on a fruitless war.

the road taxes aren't being used in a war. and if some of it did end up there it that proves my point. about it being used for things other than what it was supposed to be used for.

Alas, the bridge to nowhere!

building it unloosed danielost enabling him to escape to here.

no the government offered the handout to get the railroads to build across the empty center of the country.

That is actually true.  The railroads in the 19th century were given a lot of land free to build the tracks.  Yes, they had to pay for the iron and wood, but then they did not have to buy the land which saved them tons of money.  So when you hear them moan and complain about how truckers have it so unfair, just ask them when they are going to pay for all that land (much siezed under the Emminent Domain clause) they got for nothing.

true but most of it. citizens weren't living on at the time.

and i think they have payed it back with all of the property tax that they have to pay on that free land.

That makes no sense since EVERYONE pays taxes on land, and we still had to pay for it to begin with.

I was about to say the same, paying it back means to actually pay for the land. Had they paid for the land they would still have paid those taxes.

Take it from me, sometimes you should quit while your ahead.

Why not eliminate the useless earmarks and use the money for the right reasons and not for personal reasons? I still wonder why some people think that throwing more money at something is a better solution than learning to manage the money you currently have.

I somewhat agree but only because I think that with all the military power, all the latest in technology and with bending the rules a bit, we should have been done with this war within the first 2 years and I think that is too long compared to past wars that lasted many many years with much less technological weapons and modes of transportation.

i believe that we had something called a land rush where in you got to keep whatever land for free that you could get hold of in the 1870s


i also recall something called homesteading.

No, the land run was our government's infamous reneg on it's treaty to the Indians in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). It started in 1889.

As for homesteading, it was only available in certain areas, and certain states, and was abolished long before you and I were born, as the government sold the rights in these public trust lands to mining and corporate interests.

The government has a long and storied history of lies, embezzlement, and misappropriation.

non of this makes my statement wrong.