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• Federal Pork Barrelling Alive and Well

  Published: September 24, 2007, 9:14 am

  Tags: Earmarks, Federal Budget

  has observed: "[O]nce a federal line is drawn around property for a heritage area, the door for annual federal earmarks and grants is opened."According to figures from the National Taxpayers Union, the Celebrating America's Heritage Act's $135+ million price tag is equal to the annual federal income taxes paid by 33,276 middle class

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• Iraq + Afghanistan=$2.4 Trillion

  Published: October 24, 2007, 6:07 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Afghanistan, Federal Budget

  nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated the total tab for the wars from 2001 through 2017. CBO estimated that interest costs alone from 2001-2017 could total more than $700 billion. Congress has already appropriated $604 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  To estimate future spending, the  nonpartisan CBO [pdf]

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• Bush, Congress and MAD

  Published: November 13, 2007, 9:51 pm

  Tags: Bush, Congress, Democrats, Federal Budget, Vetos

  Bush to get the blame for a budget impasse. But Bush seems to have decided that if he can't raise his own dismal approval ratings, he will drag the Democrats down with him. So far, that is what's happening. Yet the budget is just one of the Democrats' problems. Their own partisans are furious that they have not been able to force a change in

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