May 15, 2011
CAGW: Lindsey Graham 'Porker of the Month'
"'This project and the study it requires both reek of pork,' said CAGW President Tom Schatz. 'If the benefits to South Carolina even approach the numbers cited by Sen. Graham, private backers and the state government should be chomping at the bit to fund it themselves. Instead, taxpayers everywhere will pay for a study, the results of which are a foregone conclusion – it will prove the importance of upgrading the port and cost taxpayers much more money. If each of the 260,800 people whose jobs supposedly depend on the port deepening were to contribute just 19 cents apiece, the study would be funded in full. There is absolutely no reason that taxpayers in places like Omaha or Denver should be forced to finance Charleston’s port,' concluded Schatz." [rdbrewer]