Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Bloomburg article:
> > ``This is how Washington works,'' said Keith Ashdown, chief
> > investigator at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington research
> > group. ``A big pot of pork is their recipe for final passage.''
>
> I haven't read the bill (at 451 pages, I doubt that anyone but some
> poor staffers have), but as I hear reports about how it is crammed
> with tax cuts, I can't help but wonder about the logic of a three-
> quarters of a billion dollar _spending_ bill that if full of
> provisions that will make it harder to actually _pay_ for it.
This is how Washington works, politicians like to appear as if they
are doing something NOW, so they spend other people's money on
the scheme du jour, and if there are consequences 5 or 10 years
down the road, it doesn't matter since either they are not in office any
more or the voters have forgotten about it by then.
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