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To: cotton1706

This issue doesn’t excite me. Spending is spending whether a congressman earmarks it directly or a bureaucrat decides where it goes.


11 posted on 05/13/2014 12:02:56 PM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

>> Spending is spending whether a congressman earmarks it directly or a bureaucrat decides where it goes. <<

Sure. But the objection to earmarks is that they increase the incentives for Congressmen, Congresswomen and Senators to vote for more and more federal spending.

Therefore, the anti-earmark theory as espoused by people like Sen. Tom Coburn is basically this:

Get rid of earmarks and then, total spending is supposed to go down.

(Maybe the theory wouldn’t work as advertised. But it’s certainly worth a try!)


24 posted on 05/14/2014 6:40:52 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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