Can you taste the pork yet? Earmarks were a scheme whereby CongressCritters could order federal taxmoney spent in their district on pet projects. Like that bridge to nowhere in Alaska. CongressCritters loved earmarks, after getting one, they could brag about it back in their district. We rvrn got one some years ago, Former Senator Judd Gregg managed to pull down $492,000 to renovate the Littleton Opera House, a well loved antique building, standing on a prominent site in downtown Littleton.
The incoming Republican congressional majority from 2012 voted to outlaw earmarks as pure pork and a total waste of taxpayers money.
Yesterday I heard our boy, Donald Trump, praise the earmark system and suggest bringing it back because it was the one thing that could achieve bipartisan support. "You vote for my earmark and I'll vote for your earmark". Earmarks might have been something that drew bipartisan support, but bipartisan or not, voting for earmarks was voting to waste a lot of taxpayer money. I'd druther spend less rather than get bipartisan support for pouring good money down the drain.
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