Gov. Haley Barbour Says Mississippi Won't Try to Gouge U.S. Taxpayers

Human Events › August 05, 2009

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Gov. [Haley Barbour] (R.-Miss.): Well, I don't know anything about Louisiana. So, I'm not knowledgeable to comment about there. But I can tell you that in Mississippi, the federal government has done a whole lot more right than wrong. They have been good partners. They haven't been perfect partners, but I haven't been perfect. If you talk to our mayors and county officials, who have just been fabulous, they still haven't been perfect either.

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Gov. Haley Barbour Says Mississippi Won't Try to Gouge U.S. Taxpayers

In an exclusive interview with HUMAN EVENTS Editor Terence Jeffrey last week, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R.) outlined the combined state-and-federal effort to rebuild the vast area in his state damaged by Hurricane Katrina, saying his government would not use the disaster "as a way to gouge the taxpayers."

Barbour said he hoped the federal government would pay 90% of the tab for repairing public infrastructure in Mississippi, but estimated the total federal costs for relief, recovery and rebuilding in his state would be under $50 billion and might not be much more than $30 billion. The $250-billion aid package being recommended for near...

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