Yes I can blame ANY representative who turns government into a hog farm with hogs to be slaughtered, butchered, cured, canned and shipped back to his district. THAT is against the oath.
That money is collected by the federal government. Should it be collected (in such quantities)? No.
But it is and it is then either spent to buy a new jet for the president or spent on somebody’s highway project or somebody’s insane research project or simply given away (like the 6 billion dollars shipped to Iraq that disappeared).
In an ideal world, the entire tax system would be revised and the federal government wouldn’t get enough money to be able to throw it away. But as long as it is what it is, getting something for his district is what a congressman does, and there’s far worse uses of the money.
Why are some folks here suddenly digging up stuff done 15 years ago...as I said, neither illegal nor immoral, nor, in fact, necessarily wrong...to attack somebody who is pretty conservative in other ways? Are we doing “circular firing squad,” or are we doing Dem operative stuff?