- Oct 17, 2011
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Ten days after narrowly defeating a bill to provide free school lunches to low-income K-12 students, the North Dakota Senate approved legislation to increase the amount of money lawmakers and other state employees receive in meal reimbursements.
To be fair, feeding kids would have cost $6 million, and increasing the per diem is only expected to cost $1 million. So if a choice between the two was to be made, it was by far the more fiscally conservative position to feed politicians from the public trough.
To be fair, feeding kids would have cost $6 million, and increasing the per diem is only expected to cost $1 million. So if a choice between the two was to be made, it was by far the more fiscally conservative position to feed politicians from the public trough.
