It's Not Just Pork
By Paul Chesser
The American Spectator
The fallout from the Jack Abramoff scandal, and the resultant competition for new Republican leadership in the House, has produced a growing refrain calling for an end to federal budget "earmarks." But pork proliferation is only part of the story behind the corruption problems created by oversized government.
As Patrick Chisholm wrote this week in the Christian Science Monitor, the complicity of alleged conservatives (i.e. Republicans) in the practice of expanding government represents a "triumph of the redistributionist left."
The American Spectator
The fallout from the Jack Abramoff scandal, and the resultant competition for new Republican leadership in the House, has produced a growing refrain calling for an end to federal budget "earmarks." But pork proliferation is only part of the story behind the corruption problems created by oversized government.
As Patrick Chisholm wrote this week in the Christian Science Monitor, the complicity of alleged conservatives (i.e. Republicans) in the practice of expanding government represents a "triumph of the redistributionist left."
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