The Culture of Spending

The political scientist James Payne argued that there is a culture of spending in Congress.  Even people elected on a platform of cutting government become enured to higher spending as week after week they hear witnesses saying how much more money is needed and how many more problems could be solved if only you, the great Congressperson, would use your power to spend.

Posted by James Zellmer at February 16, 2005 12:01 AM | Subscribe to this site via RSS:
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