{"id":42490,"date":"2021-06-29T09:17:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42490"},"modified":"2021-06-29T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:17:17","slug":"a-representative-introduces-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42490","title":{"rendered":"A Representative Introduces Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Daily Signal<\/a> reported that North Carolina Congressman Ted Budd has introduced an amendment to remove all earmarks from a transportation spending bill slated for a House vote this week.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

\u201cTaxpayers across the country are getting their first look at what Washington is like in the new earmark era,\u201d Rep. Ted Budd, R-N.C., said in a statement to The Daily Signal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a pretty sight,\u201d Budd said. \u201cThis transportation spending bill includes 1,474 examples of the Washington swamp saying they know best when it comes to spending taxpayer dollars. If an earmarked project is truly worthy of taxpayer funding, then it should be proposed individually on the House floor or as a competitive grant.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The House is voting on the Invest in America Act, which Budd\u2019s office says includes 1,473 earmarks. Together, those earmarks total $5.66 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wonder if Washington spending would be so out of control if Congressmen were forced to spend their own money.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

According to Budd\u2019s office, \u201cdozens of these earmarks have to do with Green New Deal priorities like greenways, electric vehicles, etc.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conservatives long have opposed earmarks, which direct taxpayer money to lawmakers\u2019 special interests and projects through the budget. Lawmakers banned earmarks under House rules in 2010, but House Democrats voted to bring earmarks back in February<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Budd and Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., introduced the Earmark Elimination Act<\/a>, which would permanently ban congressional earmarks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In March, the North Carolina congressman led a coalition of 10 senators and 25 House members to send a letter<\/a> to the House and Senate Appropriations Committee chairs voicing their \u201cstrong opposition to the formal return of pork-barrel earmarks.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery taxpayer dollar is sacred and should be treated that way,\u201d Budd said. \u201cIf this Congress really believed that, then we should remove this pork-barrel spending.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you haven’t investigated the Cloward-Piven strategy, now is a really good time to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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