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Same-Sex Benefits For Federal Employees Will Cost $99 Million a Year. Is That a Lot?

Dec 29th, 2009 | 2 responsesPosted by OIA Staff in News

How best to scare America away from equality? Not by pulling at their heartstrings or delivering moral debates, but by talking about things in dollars and sense. So when the Congressional Budget Office — that nonpartisan federal agency charged with letting lawmakers know how expensive their bills will be — concluded the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act would cost $898 million over the next nine years, it was time to scare America!…

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  • Gary Dee

    Compared to the countless millions thrown at pork barrel projects that go through Congress, every year, that’s hardly the cost of a cocktail sausage, and will actually do something of merit.

  • ubercon

    The cost is the cost. As stated above, the CBO is a non-partisan agency and it is only concerned with crunching the numbers provided by congress. That doesn’t mean the issue can’t be debated on it’s merits. As far as I’m concerned, 900 billion for something real is a bargain when compared to the billions/trillions going to vaporous projects in congressional districts that do not even exist.

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