Trump Budget Proposes Elimination of the Appalachian Regional Commission

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Originally Posted by Bureaucat

The question is what's better? It's not a welfare agency. They provide retraining program funding among other things. The genesis for the ARC was an idea by President Kennedy to focus att notion on the needs of Appalachia.

Jobs in Appalachia is a long term problem, and the ARC hasn't been a panacea, but I don't expect that its elimination plus huge tax cuts and destroying the EPA will be a real solution.

It will be interesting how the congressmen for those counties, who are mostly Republican, react to the proposal.

Anything that cuts government is a solution. The only real question is if it is enough and we have so much government to cut, I doubt "enough" will ever be achieved in my life time, much less others.

Government is not good, it is evil that has very limited need, its growth serves only to enslave the individual under the guise of the public good and it sells its favors to the mob majority in the same manner that a drunken agitator encourages a rowdy mob to violence.

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Originally Posted by mcatp

I love how you reference "horrible" projects in your town with no clue as to where the money came from.

Doesn't matter who the workers are, but they pay property tax, sales tax, income tax etc. Better question is why would existing residents not work there?

And where will these small towns find a job? It's hard for a Town Hall to leave its foundation and start working at McDonald's.

I know the money came from federal grants. I dont know through what agency but its the same principle: federal grants supplementing state and local projects.

The workers are illegal aliens. So yes, it does matter. They rent (most often multiple families to a single family unit), use services, Head Start, public school, free health department, ERs, local food banks, jails, courts, etc. work a few years sending remittances, then move.
Existing residents cant get hired. There was a class action suit charging as much if you don't believe me.

At one time I'm sure these programs did help to bring businesses into this economically depressed area but as others have pointed out it should be a temporary program. The federal government should not have to hold states hands for over 50 years.
A big draw for business is fewer restrictions and lower taxes which is actually drawing some business to locate in my state. At the same time we have lost some of our larger factories to cheap labor south of the border.