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be even higher if the savings and loan bailout was taken into consideration.
Part of the problem is that Congress has perverted the budget process into a horn of plenty to reward special interests at taxpayer expense. Legislators who bring home the most federal money to their district or state receive constituent praise for being effective, helping to secure their reelection. As congressmen scramble for federal funds, special interests end up burying the national interest.
For example, the 1990 budget includes $1.2 million for a performing arts center in Newark, N.J.; $1.5 million for an experimental fish farming operation in Stuttgart, Ark.; $9.9 million for juvenile fish bypass on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest; and $3 million for a Long Beach, California parking lot.
While a new performing arts center may be nice for the residents of Newark, is it necessary to force the rest of America to pay for it?
Fortunately, Senators Coats and McCain have proposed an alternative that would make controlling waste much simpler. Their legislative line-item veto would enable the president to send any spending he finds unjustifiable back to Congress for a second look.
Currently, the president can the
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