1.0 link 137724 <![CDATA[The Candy Store Congress]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-maccleery-and-matthew-r-welch/the-candy-store-congress_b_137724.html When Congress negotiated passage of the bailout bill earlier this month, close observers noted the addition of $150 billion in taxpayer goodies unrelated to rescuing faltering financial institutions.

Apparently legislators rightly sensed that the bill would pass the second time around and so added hundreds of pages of extra goodies. Many of these came in the form of special funding and tax break provisions for specific projects that had little or nothing to do with healing the crippled financial markets. And...

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