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Earmarks Are A Model, Not A Menace

Obsessing about earmarks has the perverse, if convenient, effect of distracting the country from its real spending problems.

by Jonathan Rauch
Saturday, March 14, 2009


The case against earmarks has pretty much evaporated over the past few years. Reformers want to hound out of existence a system that actually works better than you might think.


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