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Originally Posted by badnarik
Without earmarks the money is handed to the executive branch to piss away. The money will be spent either way. Earmarks allow transparency while throwing the constituents a bone.
The amount of the spending bill is the problem, not the earmarks.
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Well, if things are put through the proper channels, you reduce spending, because you won't have an insane amount of science grants going out every year. But by funding these 'projects' with earmarks, the grants that would get turned down are being funded anyways.