Chris Pappas: “Mr. Speaker, Freehold Borough, one of the towns in my district and the hometown of Bruce Springsteen, has experienced…”

“Mr. Speaker, Freehold Borough, one of the towns in my district and the hometown of Bruce Springsteen, has experienced firsthand the frustrations of a bloated Washington bureaucracy that seems intent on wasting their hard-earned tax dollars. As part of a plan that took place in 1994 to renew an area by the borough and HUD, the borough discovered that some of the families they helped relocate while improvements were being made turned out to be people that were living in this country illegally. As a result, the taxpayers of Freehold Borough ended up paying over $60,000 of their hard-earned income and property tax dollars to people who had broken the law. Just last week we celebrated cost-of-government day, the day in which the average American worker could finally celebrate their independence from Government taxes and regulations. The citizens of Freehold Borough and of America worked 183 days to pay for the services of government. Once again, we discover another area where the Government has wasted their hard-earned money. The fact that Freehold Borough property taxpayers had to pick up most of the bill for this Federal policy is simply wrong.”