Word: vastest
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There is the federal prison system, I grant you that: surely the vastest low-income housing program the world has ever seen, eating up $1.4 billion of federal spending. But the prisons can be regarded as a mere extension of the IRS: Who would pay their taxes if the alternative were not the sadistic embrace of the federal pen? Some of our more disillusioned citizens, the kind who keep talk-radio buzzing, have already concluded that what we have going here is a giant extortion system: Send us money, the IRS demands every April, or be prepared to spend...