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Bad investment? Spend more on it!

2014-10-06 23:27:06.101525+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal: OUR OPINION: Tagert’s highway finance views address hard reality:

Tagert, who met with the Daily Journal’s editorial board Friday after his candid luncheon speech at Tupelo’s Kiwanis Club, wasted no time in getting down to the business of saying that more revenue is necessary to repair and make safe about 700 state bridges, plus assuring the endurance of new highways with timely, quality maintenance.

"I can't afford the Internet subscription for my XBox, I need money to get more games so I can really use that subscription."

Or whatever other "we need to shovel good money after bad" and "double down on the double zeroes, this wheel has to pay off eventually" metaphor for bad investments you'd like to insert...

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