The Boondoggle Blowout Bill
About this episode
The episode discusses a recently signed $1.7 billion spending bill in Kentucky, highlighting potential waste and lack of transparency.
A $1.7 billion one-time spending bill was just signed by the Governor — and most of us had no idea it was even happening. Over $300 million in potential waste and abuse has been identified in HB 900. It started at $800 million for unnamed projects. Then, at last minute, it grew to $1.7 billion — stuffing in spending items that nobody had time to properly review… and that were kept hidden from Kentucky citizens until after the vote. Here’s just some of what they slipped in: - $80 million in forgivable loans to mega-development private industry projects - $100 million to the Economic Development Grant program - $2.5 million to buy an off-road park - $2.2 million in one-time extra funding to the Glendale Training Center at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College, which was built to train employees at the currently shuttered Ford battery plant. - $3 million to the Louisville Ballet - $4 million to Camp Landing Entertainment District, which is a for-profit private property developer renting space in a redevelopment mall to Malibu Jacks, a movie theater, and other businesses. - $2.5 million for Kentucky to invest in Kentucky tech startups (it doesn’t specify which ones —…
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