Today is “Cost of Government Day,” the day on which the average American worker has earned enough money to “pay off his or her share of spending and regulatory burdens imposed by all levels of government, federal, state, and local,” according to an analysis by the taxpayer watchdog organization, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR).

Our nation’s hard-working taxpayers have worked this year from January until today to pay of Washington’s wasteful spending habits. That is simply unacceptable. And to make matters worse, Washington’s out-of-control spending is growing. “Cost of Government Day” keeps getting later — four days since 2007 – and Americans keep having to work longer to feed Washington’s insatiable appetite for spending other people’s money.

America’s families are struggling to make ends meet –being forced to pay over four dollars for a gallon of gas, higher costs on everything from soup to nuts. The last thing they need is to give 197 days worth of earnings to politicians in Washington to spend on bureaucracy and pork projects. Congress must control its addictive spending habit and work to protect our nation’s taxpayers, not their special interest friends. I will continue to work in Congress to see that families in Minnesota and all across the nation get help they deserve. And I will also work to see that Congress answers to the American people for this dramatic increase in spending.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 1:01 pm and is filed under Politics, Economy/Budget .