Credit Where Credit Is Due
Posted By Conn Carroll On January 31, 2008 @ 1:51 pm In Enterprise and Free Markets | No Comments
We agree with Glenn Reynolds [1] that this is a “striking graphic” from Larry Kudlow’s show on the perhaps not so coincidental relationship between government pork projects [2] and total government spending:
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One minor addition though … the “earmarks are a gateway drug on the road to the spending addiction [4]” line is actually from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). Although Coburn probably doesn’t mind if Dick Armey borrows the line to get the message out.
Article printed from The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation: http://blog.heritage.org
URL to article: http://blog.heritage.org/2008/01/31/credit-where-credit-is-due/
URLs in this post:
[1] Glenn Reynolds: http://instapundit.com/archives2/014722.php
[2] government pork projects: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm1660.cfm
[3] Image: http://www.foundry.org/2008/01/31/credit-where-credit-is-due/112/
[4] earmarks are a gateway drug on the road to the spending addiction: http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007950
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