Buying Votes With Tax Payer Money

[Benton]

(10-09-2020, 11:53 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Sounds about right.

At the risk of someone going "nice whataboutism", buying votes with tax dollars is legitimately a problem with both sides. Basically the entire D Primary was a one-up contest of who was promising the most free shit.

Maybe once everything crashes from both parties spending endlessly, there will finally be a return to fiscal responsibility. Doubtful, but maybe.

Either that, or the country will just fully and openly embrace that finite money is a seemingly meaningless concept these days when a budget doesn't seem to matter, debt doesn't seem to matter, and increasing spending doesn't seem to matter. Coronavirus? Throw trillions of fiat dollars at it.

I agree,both sides do it. In this instance, though, taxpayers get nothing for it.

No new bridge, no coal terminal,  nothing but throwing a few bucks in drug company pockets.