SocraticGadfly: $21 mil on FLDS raid

May 20, 2008

$21 mil on FLDS raid

Our budget-minded Texas Gov. Helmethair, aka Rick Perry, remains silent as the taxi meter spins ever faster on how much money the state of Texas is blowing on the aftermath of the ill-conceived raid on the Yearning for Zion Fundamentalist LSD compound.

The estimated annualized cost? A cool $21 million, and you know that’s an underestimate.

Plus, that doesn’t factor in the private costs, such as gas costs for mothers to visit children scattered out to multiple foster parents.

And, per GOP-style calculations, it also doesn’t figure in lost time and wages, efficiencies, etc.

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