Cliff,

What I’m looking for doesn’t have a limit. I’m looking for any and all taxpayer funds whether it’s actual funds or in kind…This is not an IRS issue, it’s about accountability and disclosure. I cannot tell you how prevalent the practice of duplicity and overlap of effort exists within the Departments of the executive branch…Pick one. For example, the Brown Tree Snake…This “invasive species” issue is funded by agencies of Interior and Defense among others over the years…

For example, within the Non-Traditional Grants of the ESA, virtually EVERY department of the federal government (DOI, DOE, DOD, DOC, DOA, etc) is involved in this to comply with the ESA (as the regulation is promulgated). Therefore, what we read in the press announcements from each agency is NOT accurate…It’s much more but you have to read each appropriation bill from each department to find them. Also, there are the requirements for each state (our state taxes) as well…It’s far more costly to us, the taxpayers, than we are privy to by the press…The question is why? Why make the "true" cost of all of this stuff sooooo difficult to find? You already know the answer...

In other words, what we see is only the tip of the iceberg as most of the federal departments have duplicating efforts within their own appropriation requests to congress…Therefore, when the CBO says they met the bill complies with the unfunded mandate requirement, this is just a technicality of word parsing…

This is why I’m interested in reading the numbers…

Later,
Jim.
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