Word: pork-barrel
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...Philip S. Land, S.J., assistant professor of economics at St. Louis University, declared in a newspaper interview that income-tax evasion is morally as well as legally wrong. Moralists who justify it on the grounds that some tax money finds its way into graft and some into pork-barrel projects are dead wrong, said Father Land. Despite some mistakes, the President and Congress "have given us a prudential judgment" in preparing the national budget and setting taxes. It is therefore "hard to conceive what more could be required of a legislature for a law binding in conscience...
Government Spending: FOR: all major Administration appropriations bills; led the fight for funds to expand TVA power facilities with the Johnsonville steam plant. AGAINST (with Truman): all major attempts to trim fat and pork-barrel projects out of Rivers & Harbors bills and other congressional appropriations...
Speaking at the University of Denver, Ex-Congressman Robert Ramspeck of Georgia, now chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, had a suggestion pointing in the opposite direction: elect two Congressmen from each district-one to legislate and the other to pork-barrel for the folks back home...
...million worth of pork-barrel projects tucked into the rivers & harbors bill by Harry Truman, slapped away the eager hands of members pleading for pet projects, sent the $514,400,000 appropriation to the Senate...
...until the proposals for dropping pork-barrel items began piling up in the pantry, and the budget-cutters began to replace broad-gauged words with some specific proposals, could the U.S. taxpayer settle back and listen to the pleasant sputter of frying...