Annual Pork Report takes aim at McDonald Farm purchase in Hamilton County
The Beacon Center compiles a list of wasteful goverment spending each December
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) — The Beacon Center has issued their annual Pork Report, and this year’s list may not make Hamilton County leaders happy.
The report tackles what the Center considers wasted spending by local and state government from Memphis to Bristol.
This year’s edition singles out the city of Memphis bankrolling a TV show that has since been cancelled, Jackson buying an abandoned mall, and Franlin paying the In-N-Out burger chain to move into their area.
But the report also singled out the purchase of McDonald Farm in Hamilton County.
“The Pork Report continuously shows the risk to taxpayers for these wasteful projects, including correctly predicting the additional taxpayer expense from Hamilton County taxpayers for the purchase of the McDonald Farm. Hopefully, this year’s report will make politicians and bureaucrats think long and hard about how they spend tax dollars in the future.”
The report first tackled the McDonald Farm deal two years ago, and says their predictions of more, unseen costs are coming true.
“This deal was bad from the start and unfortunately just keeps getting worse as our concerns in the 2021 Pork Report have come to fruition.”
You can read this year’s Pork Report here: PORK23-Dec11-1
