Taxpayer articles

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Toomey: Ban earmarsk forever facts:
1.) Pat Toomey and senator Claire McCaskill wish to ban earmarks perminately forever.
2.) AN earmark is when certain specific things such as funding for an interest group (or even another bill) are made in order to get more votes on the bill to pass it.
3.) Earmarks are closely related to logrolling, which is the "If you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" approach of manipulation in legislation.
4.) Toomey is somewhat hypocritical for he had requestion 12 million dollars in earmarks for Lehigh businesses.
5.)"For years, earmarks played a role in fueling the overspending in Washington and undermining the integrity of our legislative process," said Toomey, R-Pa. "We cannot afford to allow Congress to resume earmarking and playing pork-barrel politics with taxpayer dollars." proves that it takes away from the sincererity of the whole process and steals the money of those who fund it and besmits them.


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Barney Frank article facts:
1.) A very far liberal democratic legislator, Barney is the first openly gay member.
2.) After 16 terms in the HOR B.Frank plans on retiring and possibly becoming a lobbyist, staying in Washington.
3.) Expendures for military budget are over a trillion dollars more than they should be.
4.) It would take 100 billion each year for 10 years to get back to the correct budget, lowing some debt and repaying what we already owe.
5.) In the Pentagon spending budget, military still spends over 43% of what it is allowed, which in Barney's opinion is one of the more significant causes of our huge debt.