If the tax laws are written for their benefit , then they need some Democrats to be involved.
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The custom of having earmarks for every district and state assures some support from members of a fractious party like the Democratic Party.
If it were not for earmarks, there surely would be states and districts that would get very little of their taxes back in the form of such deals.
For example, how would anyone justify spending as much per capita on residents of Utah or Western Kansas for homeland security? There is no real danger of Al Qaeda striking at the Mormon warehouses out to the W of Salt Lake or the grain silos in Smith Center.
North Dakota was getting so little of its own taxes back that there was a plan to build a shrine to Lawrence Welk in Strasburg.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/NDSTRwelk.htmlI don;t imagine that Strasburg's tax receipts amount to much, and the best thing the feds can do is to keep the roads maintained so the crops get to market and future Mr Wunnerful's can easily get the Hell out, just as Lawrence did, way back when.
The deal to make it a National Monument or whatever fell through, but there is a willing army of volunteers that keep the farmstead and its privy clean. They say they get 7000 visitors every year.
I bet if they did get their cookies from the government, it would be a better value than other government perks that serve no legitimate purpose, like maintaining the Blue Angels and other mega expensive military daredevil teams, that could do their publicity thing as well or better in more fuel efficient and more easily maintained planes that the latest multi-zillion dollar fighters. I mean, it does not really serve any function for government to provide these teams of daredevils, and if it did, slower aircraft would be even more entertaining.
