One form cost state taxpayers $16 million--Rubio
House Speaker Marco Rubio has found the perfect justification for his campaign to peel away the layers of government and find out how taxpayer money is being spent.
Form DR-219.
It’s a real estate form used to record the transfer of interest in real property that is sent to the Department of Revenue and filed away. And it cost state taxpayers more than $16 million last year to process 1.7 million of them.
“In the years when money overflows, in the years of milk and honey, no one looks at these things,” said Rubio, R-West Miami.
DOR actually stopped using the form last summer because much of the information was incomplete or inaccurate. But people kept sending them and the state kept paying county court clerks who processed them. They’re stored in up to 1,000 boxes – enough to fill a tractor trailer.
“We’re getting rid of something that makes absolutely no sense in the world,” Rubio said.
---Linda Kleindienst, Tallahassee bureau chief
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I wish all the people in our government would find something that could be cut as waste. You go Rubio!
Posted by: karl erickson | March 5, 2008 5:55 PM
How about the $500,000 that Speaker Rubio put in last year's budget for a Bay of Pigs Museum in his district? Why can't that museum raise funds from the private sector like other museums do? That should go, Rubio!
Posted by: Grey | March 5, 2008 8:50 PM
Well, Grey, it seems like Rubio is still $15.5 million ahead even if he keeps the museum funds. Perhaps it's time for other politicians to find ways to trim the fat.
Posted by: Jackson | March 5, 2008 11:17 PM