Florida lawmakers should ensure the windfall that will soon come to the state’s counties under the federal RESTORE Act are used as intended for environmental and economic reparations and improvement, or risk saddling taxpayers with bigger burdens down the road, R Street Senior Fellow and State Projects Director Daniel M. Rothschild told First Coast Connect host Melissa Ross in an interview on Jacksonville’s WJCT radio. Listen to the full interview here.
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