'You can argue a museum has an 'educational purpose.' But a coal loading machine or an airport terminal? What’s the educational purpose in that?' columnist WarOnDumb writes. 'And if there’s not one, how is any of this legal?' That's the question. ➡️
And $25 million for the Port of Alabama to buy coal loading equipment.That program could call down billions in federal matching funds, but the governor has refused to support expansion for lack of local funding.The better question, it seems, was whether such spending was legal at all.
And state Finance Department Director Bill Poole didn’t answer questions I submitted to him by email on Monday afternoon.“Is this legal?” is a question someone should be able to answer before spending billions of surplus education dollars. One was exposing the Ku Klux Klan with an anti-masking bill, which a number of lawmakers were conspicuously reluctant to support.The business-aligned Montgomery paper wasn’t keen on the new taxes the bill would raise, although it was lightly supportive of their purpose.
“Some of it, will find its way into the general fund to buy nourishment for departments and bureaucrats not identified with education, and to make the mothers of countless office-hungry politicians exclaim: ‘I’m glad I raised my boy to be a Klansman!’” the paper said.But to assure the public that the new taxes weren’t some sort of a bait and switch, lawmakers made the new fund’s purpose clear. The law was so explicit it said it twice in the same sentence.
Harvey said there had been no change through 2016, when he last updated his training manual for state employees and he wasn’t aware of any changes since then.
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