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Let's talk about fees and where they go. Each cell phone user pays $1.26 each month for a 911 fee. It was revealed this week that only a small portion of the fee goes to the 911 services. The remainder goes in to the general fund. Meanwhile, emergency services go without personnel, ambulances and some towns are losing emergency services all together. This is WRONG! Don't take our money and say you are going to use it for something and LIE about where it goes. Don't tell us it is for our safety while you squander it on a pet project or special interest to get yourself re-elected. We are tired of the lies and tired of you picking our pockets for more and more money each year.

In 2001, the RI State budget was $4.6 Billion. http://omb.ri.gov/documents/Prior%20Year%20Budgets/Operating%20Budget%202001/1_Budget%20as%20Enacted%202001.pdf

In 2015, the House approved an $8.7 Million Budget,

http://www.golocalprov.com/news/house-unanimously-approves-8.7-billion-fy-2016-rhode-island-budget

THIS IS NEARLY DOUBLE OUR BUDGET FROM ONLY 15 YEARS AGO.

SO, when you keep taking and taking, and 24,000 people leave RI in the last 10 years... you wonder why?!

I'll tell you why. They don't trust you. I don't trust you. You all lie. Now, those are facts. What you are selling is not a fact. You didn't take money to fund the 911 system. You aren't just going to toll trucks. As soon as the trucking company sues the state, the federal government will overturn the law and you will have already started spending the money. You will then sell us a story of how you didn't want to toll cars but the federal government made you do it.

http://turnto10.com/i-team/nbc-10-i-team-rhode-island-911-fees-dont-fund-911-services

"Last year, 911 fees added up to more than $17 million, but the budget for the E-911 center was about $5 million. The remaining $12 million or so goes to Rhode Island's General Fund. It's a practice that began in 2000 when legislators changed the law to allow 911 fees to be diverted to other areas of the state budget."

Don't even get me started on a shrubbery fee. You are making national news for your buffoonery, stop making RI look bad. We are already #50 in too many polls.