{"id":61,"date":"2006-06-18T03:36:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T03:36:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-06-21T23:53:26","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T23:53:26","slug":"government-pork-and-logrolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evanravitz.com\/vote\/government-pork-and-logrolling\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Pork and Logrolling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pork, or pork-barrel legislation, is wasteful spending made famous by the Pentagon with their $700 toilet seats, $600 hammers, etc. As long as taxpayers don’t find out, politicians in this way cultivate support from the beneficiaries of this generosity.<\/p>\n

Logrolling is when 2 representatives or parties trade votes for each other’s pork.<\/p>\n

C. Malte Lewan’s “candidate thesis” [90K]<\/a> about direct democracy in Germany (and Europe in general) makes the point that in areas with more direct democracy, government waste is less, and the economy is healthier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pork, or pork-barrel legislation, is wasteful spending made famous by the Pentagon with their $700 toilet seats, $600 hammers, etc. As long as taxpayers don’t find out, politicians in this way cultivate support from the beneficiaries of this generosity.<\/p>\n

Logrolling is when 2 representatives or parties trade votes for each other’s pork.<\/p>\n

C. Malte Lewan’s “candidate thesis” [90K]<\/a> about direct democracy in Germany (and Europe in general) makes the point that in areas with more direct democracy, government waste is less, and the economy is healthier.
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