New Taxpayer Group – PAY IT BACK www.payitback.blogspot.com
A new taxpayer group, PAY IT BACK, is calling on all legislators who spent tax payer money to air Public Service Announcements to repay the treasury out of their own campaign funds. The estimated spending of taxpayer money for PSA’s last year is 6 million dolllars.
The wasteful spending on Public Service announcements is more of the same for our Legislature, talking publicly about restraining taxes while spending millions for their own personal use while keeping the public in the dark. Our organization is spearheading the drive and it has all the earmarks of the 2005 late night pay raise.
As Representative Greg Vitali said, “Public service announcements are primarily a device for legislators to promote their own name recognition. You see them being used primarily by legislators in contested seats.”
Contact your legislator and let them know how you feel.
PAY IT BACK
www.payitback.blogspot.com
610-804-7373
If you want to get rid of
If you want to get rid of PSA because they are used for name recognition, you may as well get rid of 99% of the bills brought to the floor during a session. Most will never pass and the sponsors know that, but they also know that it gets their name out there.
PSAs are almost worthless....
In this era of television broadcasting, PSAs almost never make it on the air in the first place, so while I applaud these efforts to plug what is nothing more than an incumbent perk, they aren’t having much effect.
There are two reasons why. TV stations are running razor thin (for them) margins and don’t want to give up any avails. Second, since deregulation, there is almost no pressure on them to air PSAs. They simply don’t have to anymore…
And yes, many bills are written just so they can be used in a TV or radio commercial, “Congressman Johnson sponsored a bill to save Pennsylvania from Aliens!” but that doesn’t mean this effort to shut down the PSA Mill is wrongheaded…
Piltdown Man
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