State Budgets Get Adrenaline Shot from "Cash for Clunkers"

WASHINGTON – Struggling states and towns got a dose of badly needed money this summer from a Cash for Clunkers program that poured hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenue into their budgets.

Now, like the auto industry, recession-ravaged governments are seeing revenue fall off as car buyers take a breather from the frenzied sales of July and August. That means less money for schools, roads, public safety and other projects that get much of their funding from sales tax collections.

I wonder how the Reichwing will spin this story? They probably won't touch it at all. They can't be seen finding too many good things about Barack's Administration all the time.

This is sort of reminiscent of how North Dakota school districts stayed open because the Fish and Wildlife Service came through each year with its Refuge Revenue Sharing payments to the counties for all of that land we "took off the tax rolls". One year Cavalier County ND schools stayed open for the last 2 months of the year because the Service paid for the lands we owned in the county. Had we not the school system would have shut down 2 months early that year. It was something we did every year because the law requires it.

And of course all of North Dakota applauded the Service for giving this shot in the arm to local school districts. Just like the Reichwing will be doing the same for Cash for Clunkers. NOT!