Government Pork and Logrolling
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.
Logrolling is when 2 representatives or parties trade votes for each other's
pork.
C. Malte Lewan's
"candidate thesis" [90K] 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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