{"id":20961,"date":"2014-10-28T04:36:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T03:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=20961"},"modified":"2014-10-28T04:54:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T03:54:10","slug":"20961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/20961\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Carts Instead of Infrastructure for a New York County?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cezary Podkul of ProPublica writes:\u00a0 <\/em>A central tenet of government finance is that money borrowed over the long term should be spent on projects that will outlast the debt – things like buildings, bridges or other essential infrastructure.<\/p>\n

That’s not what upstate New York’s Niagara County did with much of its money from tobacco bonds.\u00a0 How Tobacco Settlement Money was Spent in Niagara County<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Cezary Podkul of ProPublica writes:\u00a0 A central tenet of government finance is that money borrowed over the long term should be spent on projects that will outlast the debt – things like buildings, bridges or other essential infrastructure. That’s not … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t