Your tax dollars at work.

Your tax dollars at work.

Caltrans paid $205,075 to relocate a bush that you can buy at Home Depot for $15.00.

“The $100,000 to pay for the ‘hard removal,’ the $79,470 to pay for the ‘establishment, nurturing and monitoring’ of the plant for a decade after its ‘hard removal,’ and the $25,605 to cover the ‘reporting requirements’ for the decade after the ‘hard removal,’ equaled a total cost of $205,075 for ‘translocating’ this manzanita bush.”

$25,000 just for the paperwork. 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/taxpayers-foot-over-200k-bill-to-move-wild-bush-to-secret-location-in-san-fran/

Obviously, we need to raise taxes.  There may be other bushes to save.